for the american people only?

Question

yes old news i know, i have been busy. what do the public think about the human rights aspect of the way the monster was hung?
it is in my opinion uncivilised and iam against the whole capital punishment thing anyways, just curious about the usa's joe public opinion.

my husband is kurdish by the way, he agrees with all the he got off lightly stuff. but what iam saying is and i have seen what he did pics/stories etc, i mean what makes us human? you slap me i slap you is never ending, someone has to rise. i mean piety is more respectable surely?

yes i am aware dogdog but you are missing my point how can we as humans develop? someone has to give up.
or we will continue making the same mistakes over and over.
i believe in God, so i guess that matters here.
it must be harder for the athiest.
it seams sometimes that we as a humanity dont develope, we just go around making the same mistakes over and over, barbaric.

for the Iraqi people closure was important, and maybe as my child was not tortured i cannot be deemed fit to comment.
but fortunately i can post this in here as a human being and give my humble opinion to kill is wrong.
it has to be simple, murder is wrong.
a person cannot take another persons life as that is Gods perogative. in this case it seams like injustice and revenge on the part of shias (poss quite rightly so) i cant say, but surely someone has to give.
and it has to be the Iraqi government?

Answer 1

Candi, while I can think of better alternatives to execution, I truly believe that if anyone deserved to be put to death it was him. Of all the crimes we know he committed, he was only found guilty of killing 182 people... his own people!
He killed people because he questioned their loyalty to him. He raped women because he liked how they looked. Yes, he was a monster and I believe that it just came time to pay his dues. And think about this, his execution was more humane than some Iraqis gave captured American civilians. Beheading someone is a slow and painful death. Saddam was indeed a monster, and like with all monsters, he absolutely had to die.

Answer 2

I think that even if you don't believe in the death penalty, Saddam was exceptional because he was the head of state and murdered hundreds of thousands of his own citizens.
I also think that the guards and witnesses at Saddam's hanging showed inadequate decorum, but I can forgive that more easily than mass murder.
Besides, he would always be a danger if he stayed alive. There could be no absolute guarantee that he wouldn't get power again.
I do agree and understand that your country will have to go through a process of forgiveness rather than revenge. That is the only way to national reconciliation. This does not, however, mean that the worst offenders shouldn't be punished.
I appreciate hearing your thoughts.

Answer 3

You're question is quite vague. I presume you are asking the American people what they thought of Saddam Hussein's execution by hanging?

I do favor the death penalty in extreme circumstances (and Saddam Hussein certainly was!!). But I don't think anyone should have videotaped it.

If, on the other hand, the death penalty was not an option, I had an idea of what to do with him: Put him in a cage in the middle of Baghdad and leave him to the Iraqi people that he tortured.

Answer 4

In all honesty, I was horrified. I don't like to see any life taken. HOWEVER, as you said, my family was not harmed at the hands of this monster. I might feel very different if they were. You see, although I don't think you receive closure nor feel better after such an event - in some cases I can see the need or desire for revenge. It's not right, nor would I advocate it, but I understand it.

Answer 5

Capital Punishment is good way to scare most people into not committing a crime in the first place. I agree with capitol punishment, I think its essential. As far as Saddam is concerned, you should read up on the things he did to his own people and his neighboring countries. He deserved what he got. Also in some middle-eastern countries, things like stoning and Crucifixion still occur. In another example, there is a tribe of people that believe that left hand is impure. So they eat with only the right hand. If you are caught stealing they cut off your right hand and you starve to death. If you are liar the chief heats a wooden spoon over a fire then repeatedly burns the liars Toung with it. check into this subject its very interesting. Capitol Punishment isn't so bad, its a part of life.

Answer 6

The timing was poor, catching it on a camera phone was worse.

Whether he should have been hung or not depends on where you stand on capital punishment, and Americans are by no means monolithic on that question. If you do believe in capital punishment, he certainly deserved it.

I think politically, Iraq would have been much better off bundling him off to the Hague for his retirement years. But it really was Iraq's decision, not ours, on what should be done with him.

-Dio

Answer 7

A lot of Americans think it was deserved and appropriate....at least that's what I get from the people on YA.

I personally think he should have been put in prison in his country for the rest of his life.

I don't believe in capital punishment but I also think depriving a person of their freedom is worse than death.

Answer 8

As long as Sadam was alive, the radicals would have hope of freeing him and putting him back in power.

Capital punishment should be replaced with frontal lobotomies. After they are mental vegetables you send them to Naples Florida to live with the other vegetables. No killing, and no high costs of confinement.

Answer 9

First, I'm very much in favor of the death penalty - keeping someone in jail for a long period is cruel and most people convicted have proven themselves incapable of living in civilized society. As for the human rights aspect, dead is dead. He doesn't remember a thing and making a spectacle of him, even if unintentional, is fair payback for his atrocities.

Answer 10

yeah, he the basterd so he just killed like a basterd but i not in flavor of that ever but its their way.I think that its wrong that they video type this and show it to craazy and mentally sick(ILL) people that will enjoy the basterd being hunged is sick,sinfull,and degarding to show the man die, even though he is a basterd.