It sure makes executions look even spookier than they already are, but is there a purpose for covering your face when you're going to kill somebody?
2007-01-03 18:20:25 · 16 answers · asked by Woe 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Considering the amount of violence in Iraq, the executioners probably didn't want to have their faces shown because if their faces were shown they would become targets for those living in Iraq that still think highly of Saddam.
2007-01-03 18:32:08 · answer #1 · answered by some_guy_times_50 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
via the criteria of maximum western international locations, the videotaping and e book of Saddam's execution is incorrect on many ranges. via middle-jap standards, it truly is employer as conventional. Public executions ar quite uncomplicated in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and so on. After what they have been with the aid of in the final 2 many years, maximum Iraqis in all probability are not too squeamish approximately loss of existence. It replaced right into a sordid, sloppy execution, and a grotesque jiffy of vid, yet little greater suitable than a paper-decrease on the gaping wound this is many of the middle east. additionally, the dissemination of the "unapproved" video provides evidence, in a society that subsists on rumor, that Saddam is merely not coming back EVER.
2016-10-19 10:55:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Saddam Husseins case the executioners were scared of beeing recognised, had they been recognised they and their families would have had to face the threat of death in the days to come.
2007-01-03 18:28:06 · answer #3 · answered by Jaff 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Duhh!
You gonna walk out in the street as 'the man who executed Saddam"?
What about your family?
2007-01-03 18:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the case of Saddam, it's to avoid retribution.
2007-01-03 18:22:45 · answer #5 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the purpose is so that saddam hussien followers cannot know who kill him and in some culture they say it is because they don't want the spirit of the dying body know who kill him..if he know, the spirit will avange for him..
2007-01-03 19:12:39 · answer #6 · answered by L_Dx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's for their own safety. the executed person might have someone who is not happy with the event. and this person might try to do bad stuff the the executioner.
2007-01-03 18:31:38 · answer #7 · answered by the_justin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's for their protection. Saddam was evil but he did have followers who will want to avenge his death.
2007-01-03 18:25:59 · answer #8 · answered by Night Wind 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's so that no one can prove who actually killed who. I could be wrong, but I read somewhere that when anyone who died by firing line, there would only be one guy with the real bullets. That way nobody could say "It was you" and nobody could say "It was me"
2007-01-03 18:25:12 · answer #9 · answered by queensassey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually they had to leave for a ski trip right after the hanging. Notice that they were also wearing boots.
2007-01-03 18:22:00 · answer #10 · answered by jigga 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋