Saddam to hang

What makes me sad about him hanging is that there are people who will take pleasure in his hanging. The hanging will do as much damage to them as it does to Saddam. It is as if Saddam will have the last laugh. Changing the innocence of people into a desire to kill.

In my opinion that gives Saddam a certain amount of victory. The transformation of others into people who take joy in revenge.

The death penalty needs to be done with caution and only for justification. If it causes a feeling of revenge, it is misused and has backfired. There should be no joy or feeling of revenge when a person is executed.
 
Woodrow said:
In my opinion that gives Saddam a certain amount of victory.
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But Imagine that he just got to live in prison, then people would argue that he aint going through something like what the others went through, to me it seems a no win situation.
 
Muezzin said:
Yeah, but taxpayers have to fund that. Me, I'd just execute the genocidal sucker. Generally I'm opposed to the death sentence, but in exceptional cases (e.g. genocide), I condone it.
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But for me thats an easy punishment, and easy way out for him from the punishment he really deserves.

And why should taxpayers fund that? He should himself work hard to earn his bread. There must be so many jobs for him in jail too, like cleaning, cooking, and washing filth of his co-prisnors.
 
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Saddam killed thousands of people with his oppressive Baathist state. He should hang - it is a milder fate than being gassed like the Kurds of Halabja.

Before you ask, I was against the invasion of Iraq. It resulted in easily as many deaths as Saddam himself caused.
 
Surely, I mean some people would think, that he should be forgiven.
 
IsaAbdullah said:
Surely, I mean some people would think, that he should be forgiven.
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Apparantly the people from his village see him as a hero. Yes, there are those who will believe he should be forgiven. If he is truly repentent of his crimes I too feel he should be forgivesn but that does not mean he should escape punishment.

I believe his earthly punishment is just, but I do not like the idea that it will cause joy to some people. I do not believe it should be a cause of celebration and a spectacle. I fear that the hanging is going to become a show and not payment for a crime.

Perhaps the best way would for him to be permitted to live, in disgrace and as a coward too evil and too worthless to face the honor of death.
 
I agree that his execution should not be celebrated. It is disgusting to take pleasure in other's deaths, no matter how deserved.
 
I'm starting to wonder whether this hanging will even take place. I can see a scenario where Saddam's lawyers manage to appeal the verdict for about 20 years until Saddam dies in prison with a bag of Doritos on his lap.
 
Well said Keltoi, that very well may be what happens.
 
Woodrow said:
What makes me sad about him hanging is that there are people who will take pleasure in his hanging. The hanging will do as much damage to them as it does to Saddam. It is as if Saddam will have the last laugh. Changing the innocence of people into a desire to kill.

In my opinion that gives Saddam a certain amount of victory. The transformation of others into people who take joy in revenge.

The death penalty needs to be done with caution and only for justification. If it causes a feeling of revenge, it is misused and has backfired. There should be no joy or feeling of revenge when a person is executed.
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You know I agree with your views toward Saddam and would apply them to all capital punishments. But in this case, I guess it is for the people of Iraq to decide. And Allah to judge them, not me.
 
Anyone on here, who has better google-searchin' skills than I, could you please search for an aritlce titled : Justice And Hypocrisy by Robert Fisk and post it on here? It's not an old article, less than 24 hours i believe.

Wa'salaam

_Zubair
 
In my opinion, he should not be hung.

He should be locked up, behind bars, instead.

If he is hung, it is an easy escape.

If he is put behind bars, that is real torture.

And who knows, while he is in there, he might even repent and beg forgivness from those whose family and friends he has hur.

Kheir.

 
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Keltoi said:
I'm starting to wonder whether this hanging will even take place. I can see a scenario where Saddam's lawyers manage to appeal the verdict for about 20 years until Saddam dies in prison with a bag of Doritos on his lap.
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I doubt that, seeing as at least half of his defence team, whilst on trial, were assasinated. The reality would most likely be the assasin(s) would end up taking out Saddam.
 
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Never fear, all is not lost. If he doesn't get his comeuppance in this world, he will not be able to escape God's justice in the Hereafter.
 
May Allaah make the lifes easier for the people of Iraq.
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ameen

If Saddam is going to be hanged for killing innocents, then u might as well add more people to the list. He isnt the only one. Bush just tops the list.
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vry true
 
AbdulHassanAmir said:
He was, but because they were demanding a WHOLE nother state seperate from Iraq, and since the kuwait conflict...you know what happened. Also, he was responsible for educational reforms in Iraq and was rewarded an literacy award from a world wide education program. What happened to him was a true crime. Sure he was a dictator and madae mistakes, such as the Iran-Iraq war. But calling him the next hitler? He's so ignorantly portrayed in American media, people actually making fun of him and boasting about his death. He deserved a life sentence not a hanging. If Iraqis actually want justice, they should turn to the US whom supplied him with weapons in the first place.
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what weapons did the US supply him?
 
Tayyaba said:
If Saddam is going to be hanged for killing innocents, then u might as well add more people to the list. He isnt the only one. Bush just tops the list.
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Bush never authorized the extermination of an entire people though either
 
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Saddam was a cruel genocidal dictator. People like him deserve to die, just like Hitler's friends did. The punishment for murder in Islamic law is death, which for people like him is certainly just.
He is also secularist, BTW, so the people who blame Islam for Saddam's actions are very wrong indeed.
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