Saddams Husseins brother executed - botched or not?

Question

Saddam Husseins brother was the latest to feel the hangmans noose in Baghdad. It is being called a botched execution on all the major news networks because the hanging ripped his head straight off his body. (picture that). Seriously - it decapitated him. My question. Why call it botched? It sounds like it worked pretty good. The guy is dead isnt he? Had he lived then yes...it would have been a botched execution. So how was this botched?
A second question. How long before this video hits the internet?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243668,00.html

Answer 1

I could care less. The only important thing is that the bastard is dead. I could care even less if they scrunched his balls with a needle-nosed plier

Answer 2

Botched because a professional hangman judges his weight and height so he drops to break his neck with no strangulation and no decapitation. This fellow guessed without knowing and his judgement was way off big time. Things like that just don't happen if you have a competent hangman that knows what he's doing.

Answer 3

Well, the idea is to calculate the weight of the person being hung and determine how much slack rope will be needed to snap the neck when he is dropped. They had too much slack and it tore his head off.
Either way when his neck broke he was dead and didnt feel anything after that.
Only ghouls care about seeing these videos.

Answer 4

I'm surprised we haven't seen it yet. I'm even more surprised at all the hand wringing from western political figures when hanging turns into the favored form of execution in arabic Moslem societies: beheading.

Answer 5

The hanging was not "perfect," but it erred on the "safe" side: he died instantly, as he should. So it was not botched.

Answer 6

Sounds like it.

Answer 7

I am in your camp, must be some genius, who figured out how to do that.

Answer 8

not botched / give it a week