Was Saddam's execution carried out properly?

Question

I know he was a bad man and did terrible things and I think he should have been executed, But the people who execuited him where tauting him in the seconds before his death. People where allowed to film it on their cell phones. The executioners where chanting political statements supporting a local terrorist master mind. There was total caos surounding his execution, they rushed it and carried it out only 4 days after his appeal. I know he did a lot of bad things but 2 wrongs don't make a right.

Answer 1

Properly as to whose standards?

According to Islamic or political laws. He would have been hung in front of a Mosque and left handing for three days for all to see, as an example for all people. Saddam was taken down right after he died, and was handed to his family to do with his body as they see fit. Compare to other people who were hanged and or killed by him or other leaders no it was not handled properly.

I am against the death penalty and Saddam even more so. Not for his sake, but for the sake of other people and what might happened by those who supported Saddam and still do. Now they are rioting for his death, and want to evange his death, but they never did when he killed the so many people in his prison and when he gassed a whole town.

Check what he did:
http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/saddam_en.html

It is over for him, and now he is in the hands of his maker, and whatever he did or didn't do, it will be judged by his maker. Hopefully, people will be smart enough not to do harm to others in Saddam's name.

Answer 2

I've just been listening to the various news reports in the UK discussing this. George Galloway likened it to a lynch mob, and having grown up in Northern Ireland I can understand the comparisons.
It's not about treating Saddam 'nicely' or having 'sympathy' for him, of course he was a tyrant and caused pain and suffering to many people, we all agree on that.
it's the fact that we are supposed to be civilised westerners and yet this whole debacle has shown some people to be almost on the same level as he was. This mad desire that has been all over these pages from people desperate to watch a man die. People saying they're glad he's gone and he deserved it and so on and so forth, and I bet most of them are too young to even know what it was he did do, they're just repeating what they've heard in the papers, or going along blindly with anything Bush and Blair say. Most of them couldn't give a flying pig pasty about Iraqi's, so it's not a human desire to see justice that is contenting them, it's bloodlust.
And the fact that Blair has said nothing and Bush walked away from the microphones today rather than answer questions that makes you realise how embarrassed they are that this execution has been seen for what it was, yes the death of a very evil man, (but then Pinochet was evil and Margaret Thatcher was his best friend over here,) but more, a knee jerk reaction to the real reason Bush and Blair invaded Iraq and no more has been heard of Osama bin Laden.

Answer 3

In a country where hangings are common-place occurrences, the tauntings are part and parcel of the spectators, even if they just happen to be guards within the facility. If I had a relative that was executed during his regime, I would be right there taunting him, too, asking him how he likes it now that the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak.

The other thing that you misperceive, is that people weren't 'allowed' to video the event on their cell phones. The guard that did this, did it on his own recognizance, and downloaded the clip into the Internet. If you follow the news, that individual is currently on charges.

After his appeal was denied, the choice to carry out the execution was not 'rushed'. The original sentence was for the execution to be carried out 'within' 30 days, not IN 30 days. Therefore, when the appeal was denied, the execution was carried out. What exactly was 'unfair' about that?

So, the taunting is normal in those situations (and remember that this was not done in America, but in a country that walks on the wild side), the guard that filmed the event is being brought on charges, and the hastening of the execution was also normal.

Go over there and tell them that they did it all wrong and they will happily string you up, thinking that they are doing a justifiable thing in the name of Allah.

Answer 4

If he had killed all those people here in the US and he had destroyed most of your family, would you not wanted to see that individual get the punishment they deserve? I think that the appeals system we have here in the US is way to long and our prisoners on death row are there for 20 years or longer before they are put to death. Justice has been served swiftly, no paying for prisoners who have committed horrendous crimes. The execution was not supposed to be recorded and the people will and one has been caught. As far as chanting political statements, there are people who deny the Holocaust ever happened and that Hitler was a great man.

Answer 5

thanks to Saddam, every child of Iraq is able, even has to go to school, and the women have their rights...etc. every coin has two sides.
while destroying Saddam's regime, the number of people were killed is higher than the number of those who ever needed to be saved from him. And after Iraq is free from the American personification of devil alias Saddam Hussein, the entire country is out of order, civil war between religious communities, simple power games, who'll get the biggest peace of the cake.
Who will take responsibility for this destruction, and all the lifes have been and still being sacrificed to kill one single man ? Who's idea was that Iraq was in need to be freed from Saddam? Who's idea was it, that their weapons are more lethal than American weapons, or those of European countries, or Russia or what so ever? And if so, why the hell didn't they use it? What or who gave anyone out of Iraq the right to judge about Iraq? Why do the Iraqis and Vietnamese and Japanese, those left Afghans, and so on, not have the right to judge US? And to hang your presidents, one by one....
And please do not tell me that, the judge was an Iraqi...
the whole thing was a bad joke, worse and cheaper than any talk show.

If you are so naive to trust your media, at least you should recognize that you are being fooled, when they while pretending to cut one single tree, blast the whole forest.

Answer 6

Agreed---the whole spectacle was barbaric. BUT do not forget these are the same people who televised the beheading of Daniel Pearl and others.
What did you expect?
I've always tried to see the good in all, and never stereotype a culture, religion, or racial group. But it is apparent that many of these people are raised from babies to hate everyone outside their own religion or even sect of religion. It is very very sad.
And while 2 wrongs do not make a right, "what goes around comes around". Saddam was not kind and compassionate as he gassed the Kurds or had people fed into a shredder. If anything, his death was too merciful--but I am sure his suffering is far from over. The laws of karma apply equally to all.

Answer 7

US Military turned him over to the Iraqi's. 2 people had mobile phones, as reported by an Iraqi official and they know who filmed the execution. The report is that the people who taunted him were people immediately outside the room where he was hung. It did not look like total chaos to me, I saw the video..It looked chaotic due to the camera's flashing, but was orchestrated and carried out in a short time.....Iraqi's lost their loved ones at the hand of this dictator, so they sought justice in their country, their way....If there was any question he was not responsible for the many deaths he was tried and convicted for, the Iraqi gentleman who signed the papers ok'ing it, wouldn't have signed the papers to kill a fellow Iraqi.......IF someone murdered your family members by torture and such would you not want to see justice....I am not Iraqi, no family killed by him, they did, (the Iraqi people) and handled it their way, so no, you are totally wrong in what you wrote.....

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I have something of an odd opinion on this and similar situations, and it's more of a reflection on society.

First, let's clear up that those that filmed the execution were NOT "allowed" to do it, and that at least one of them has been taken into custody for filming it and releasing it to the internet.

Now, as far as "taunting" a condemned man at his execution goes, I see it like this: when someone is sentenced to "death", it's not because they were just a nice, misunderstood person. It's because they've done things that were reprehensible, and, in my opinion, they really don't deserve to be treated nicely, whether they're facing death or not. If they've lived a life without a reasonable sense of humanity, then I fail to understand why they deserve it in return.

It's akin to when a serial killer is captured, and the media complains that the killer "shows no remorse". Uh, DUH. They're a serial killer. If they were going to be remorseful, they wouldn't have kept killing people.

Society is so attuned to being politically-correct and "nice" about everything that they can't fathom that political correctness is logically impossible, and that "nice" has a time and place. Some things and some people don't deserve "nice".

Answer 10

Nothing about Saddam and Iraq was done properly. Bush should be made to answer seriously about what he did to that country and to the world in the process.