did saddam deserve to be hanged?? or left in high security jail???

Answer 1

he could have just been released- what was he going to do- found a new country?

Answer 2

Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and murderer who ordered and in some cases personally participated in the brutal execution of thousands of people who were killed because of their opposition to his regime. If there were ever a good case for the death penalty, Saddam Hussein probably would be it.

On the other hand, the international community generally frowns upon the death penalty, the United States is one of the only countries in the United Nations that actually has the death penalty (in certain states), and death by hanging is considered cruel and unusual punishment even in the U.S (which no longer permits hangings).

So to answer your question, Saddam probably deserved to be executed, but it was unfortunate that he was executed in such a primitive and cruel manner, as doing so undermined the legitimacy of the entire process.

Answer 3

Saddam only needed to be hanged just in case he blew the whistle on who actually sold him WMD's. All the WMD's found in Komashia warehouse at the end of the gulf war had British French and USA labels on them. Sold to Saddam to help him blitz Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini. Those WMD's were found, the RAF was sent in to bomb the warehouse to smithereens without taking an inventory - precisely because it would have been too shaming to admit our part in Saddam's WMD atrocities. We knew for certain he had WMD's because we sold them to him. What we then did was to destroy what we found at the end of the firtst Gulf war without ascertaining that we had destroyed everything sold to Saddam. Britain does not believe in the death penalty but didn't dare say so for fear that Saddam would live long enough to really tell the whole story. We in the UK are shamed by the fact that John Prescott - Deputy Prime Minister - only spoke against hanging Saddam after he had been hanged. Talk about shutting the stable door .....

Answer 4

At the beginning I have to tell you guys and gals I am an Iraqi working here in UK. Saddam has been a cause of pain and suffering for millions for decades, death was not the proper punishment, actually there is no proper earthly way I can think of to have better punishment than what GOD had prepared for him in hell BUT.. the way he was executed was wisely prepared by whoever wants things to get worst in Iraq. The Americans was keeping him in custody all the time, why they’ve decided to give him away to the so called “Government” to execute him, any idiot would have know that proper authority should be there to supervise the execution and the same idiot would know that the Iraqi “Government” is not an authority of any kind.
If I let myself loos I will keep talking for ages so I better shut up and hid myself in shame because what had happened had carried the name of my country over it.

Answer 5

Deserve or not, that is irrelevant. If you execute someone, no matter how bad they were during their life, they WILL be viewed as a martyr. This is exactly what has happened to Hussein. People have forgotten everything he did, and only remember the fact that he was executed by the US (yeah, you can forget the 'jury of Iraqis' nonsense, it was a puppet court and everyone knows it). Many Sunnis now see him as a hero who died trying to protect them, this will only add fuel to the civil war. A similar thing happened to the early IRA, most Irish people didn't support them - until they were executed, when they saw a HUGE surge in popularity for their cause. If you left Hussein to rot in a prison then people forget about him - and then he dies anyway, alone and irrelevant.

Answer 6

This is a tough one. I believe that no one has a right to take another life. But them I think about Bin Laden or someone who rapes children and they certanly should die. I think that if a person is left in seclusion for the rest of their life with no TV or books or anything to do their own thoughts will make them go insane. Then again Jesus did not promote revenge. And this would probably go against our constitution as cruel and unusual punishment. As a society we are responsible to carry the burden of the bad individuals in our society so he should have been jailed with his 3/day meals and a TV.

Answer 7

there was no such thing as high enough security when it came to Saddam. The thought that he would somehow get free was like an ax over the people of Iraq's head. His hanging took this ax away.

Answer 8

Yes he deserved to be hung. If he was left even in a high security jail he would have been released. His people would have found a way to release him even if that meant using force and harming more people

Answer 9

If Saddam was allowed to live then he would remain a political threat to the government. He would be able to maintain a loyal following, every word he utters in public would be news worthy, he would remain the strongest voice of the Iraqi people.

If he was not killed, then someway, somehow, he would have been about to return to power. Once in power he would have eliminated all his political opponents, and no one would question if he was being politically correct.

Answer 10

This is old hat now but to help you understand I will answer your question. He deserved to be hanged. He made the rules and so therefore had to die by them. He was lucky the people didn't get hold of him. He would have been ripped to pieces and his body parts spread all over Iraq. I do not blame his executioners for their taunts. They must have hated his guts. He earned the humiliation of hanging and despite the shock and outrage of some people I believe it was a statement to all future despots and tyrants.

Answer 11

Hanging Saddam served no purpose other than making him look like a martyr to his supporters, and his enemies (the Iraqi govenment we support) look bad. Had he wasted away in prison for the rest of his life, the U.S. wouldn't be facing the consequences of reprecussions it does now. As usual, our leaders don't have a clue what to do in Iraq.