I know the crimes Saddam committed were evil, but somehow I find the execution completely evil as well. I have been left feeling so sick. What kind of world do we live in? Not only are there evil people committing crimes, but the governmental authorities themselves seem to commit judicial murder as well? Am I the only person to feel this way?
2007-01-02 21:34:16 · 30 answers · asked by Modern Man 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
No, you are not. I totally agree with you. Taking somebody's life, for whatever reason, is murder, which ever way you look at it. I think there is also a touch of hypocrisy about it - Saddam killed or was responsible for the killing of a lot of people, so let's kill him! Tit for tat.
2007-01-02 22:23:00 · answer #1 · answered by Mother Hen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I respect your question and how you feel, but my answer is for us who are for such punishments in countries that allow when such circumstances have contributed to the execution of such an evil man. Gone are the days when capital punishment was a daily sought way of sustaining criminal activity. for example, a theif would have has right hand chopped off all those years ago, yet most people get told off or a bail where punishment is taken further, yet the government wonders why crime levels are sustaining at the levels they are? instead, in this matter they wack more tax on products and are possibly encouraging thieves to steal more, as with each passing year the cost of goods are rising, and this is also on food. Severe crimes such as the actions of Saddam should be condemed to country capital punishment. The only crime that warrants a death sentenace here in the UK is treason, yet people are being violently murdered here and most of the time the world is unaware. I dont see much justice in that. OK so each country is ruled by a different government etc, but the punishments for every single crime should be justible for that of the public aswell as those who rule our countries.
2007-01-03 06:25:43 · answer #2 · answered by Need_to_know 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you're not. Power corrupts and government is the ultimate power. So if government is corrupted, then government is also evil.
While I personally think Saddam got off easy (hanging is too humane for a monster like that), I do not believe his execution was, by any standards, civilized. The hangman put the noose around his neck in the wrong fashion. The knot belongs at the back of the neck, not the side. The shouting at him and taunting him at the gallows was uncalled for as well. He had been tried, found guilty and sentenced to hang. It should have been enough for them. But no, they had to gather around him like a rabid lynch mob and make everyone feel sorry for him! Sorry for the Butcher of Baghdad! How I hate that feeling.
They have shown themselves to be every bit as brutal as Saddam, which will make way for another repressive regime. Nothing has changed.
2007-01-03 06:50:49 · answer #3 · answered by Avie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes you are.
There's no such thing as judicial murder - he was given the death penalty. He didn't just steal a few sweets from the local shop, he directly caused the death of millions.
Most of the families of the people he had killed, didn't ever get the bodies back, so they couldn't even have a burial. His family did.
If you feel so bad about it why did you watch the video? Hundreds of people are executed every single day - in islam, the death penalty is compulsory for certain offences because it says in the koran.
I suppose that is the biggest difference between us free-thinking Westerners, and the bloodthirsty followers of islam. To them, life is very cheap, they don't hold it sacred.
And for the other people who say he shouldn't have been executed - if he was kept alive there would be umpteen hijackings etc by his supporters to try to gain his release from prison. Islamic terrorists kidnap innocent workers, and ask for muslim prisoners to be released - when they're not released they are beheaded
2007-01-03 16:35:27 · answer #4 · answered by papa.rumbo 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes Its makes me sick too not because Im against the death penalty but because everyone knows the US was behind it probly and if it was in the US he would of had an appeal which I still think he had a right to.I dont beleive every thing the papers say.They tell us what they want to.Bottom line I have to question why he has so much support from the Iraqis.I mean people over there are going bananas over this.If he actually did the crimeas they say he did then he may deserve the death penalty but I question why it was so quick and why hang him?Thats so archaic .Thats what they did a hundred years ago.
2007-01-03 06:43:46 · answer #5 · answered by butterflyspy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, executions do not make me feel sick. I do not project my fear of death on to other people and so I am not "left feeling so sick" when I hear about someone dying. Also, after decades of working through the Catholic guilt programing from my childhood, I no longer have a lot of free-floating anxiety about whether or not I'm a "sinful person", which means for practical purposes, I don't worry a lot about evil.
I notice in your little litany of angst, you didn't make any references to Jesus or the Bible. I'm guessing therefore that you're not a Judeo-Christian. If so, good for you; I'm not either. But tell me one thing: Without a god or a scripture to base it on, on what rational basis do we decide anything is evil? I mean, it's a completely religious concept....
Nimadan
2007-01-03 06:00:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No! Me too.
There was a quote by an Iranian guy who spoke to the BBC about the execution: "As an Iranian, I hated [Saddam Hussein] for what he did to my country, but as a human being I feel sorry for him". I think that this sums up what I think about the execution, too.
I find it very difficult to get my point across to others that even though he did all these horrific things, he is still a human being and it is wrong to kill someone like that. It kind of affects me more, as my grandmother has recently died and I saw her in a chapel of rest, so it reminds me what it is like to see a body like that.
2007-01-03 05:48:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you & I am not a "sap" who feels sorry for Saddam. I believe that the death penalty is a crime of murder. The US is the only so-called "civilized" country who uses this as punishment. We share this distinction with 3rd world countries. There is some hope for our country as there are many states who do not have the death penalty but are, unfortunately, in the minority.
2007-01-03 06:07:17 · answer #8 · answered by Judith 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mocking of Saddam before he was executed was sick. Yes.
That he received the death penalty...I'm not sure. What would have been a better alternative? Life imprisonement without chance of parole?
If it were any other person, he/she would surely have gotten the death penalty as well.
Evil/crooked governments are a fact. As long as there are governments, there will be the crooked.
Unfortunately there's nothing "we" can do about it.
2007-01-03 05:41:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Executions are horrible, but in this situation, it is the only option. If he were in jail, there would always be people fighting for his cause, and free him to rule again.
The fact that he refused to take his punishment with dignity says everything about him. The executioners should have behaved better though, and he would have been shown up right to the end.
2007-01-03 06:11:00 · answer #10 · answered by Thia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋