Worse than death...
Is it just me or does everyone struggle with the news that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by hanging?
I know he’s a terrible man. During his 30 year reign he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of his own countrymen, Kurdish People were gassed to death, military deserters had their ears cut off, women accused of adultery or prostitution were publicly beheaded.
It’s very hard to feel any sympathy for a man like Saddam Hussein, but I don’t believe in an eye for an eye either. His death by hanging will bring me no comfort.
Saddam Hussein was born poor in a mud-hut village near Tikrit on April 28, 1937. He was orphaned at a young age and raised by an uncle who idolised Adolf Hitler.
Via the military and what people describe as his cult of personality, he overcame his humble beginnings and rose to Iraq's highest office. In Arabic, his name means "the stubborn one" or "he who strikes".
On his 60th birthday he commissioned a copy of the Koran to be inscribed in his own blood.
Saddam has said as a military man he wants to face a firing squad…not the hangman.
A death sentence generates an automatic appeal process of a least 30 days, delaying any execution by months at least.
Regardless of what happens, I can’t support the death penalty. Surely, if Saddam has taught us anything it’s that killing is wrong. No matter who is dangling from the rope.
In any case, I strongly believe Saddam Hussein fears irrelevance more than he fears death. 20 years is a cell with nobody to pay him attention is surely a punishment worse than death.
I know he’s a terrible man. During his 30 year reign he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of his own countrymen, Kurdish People were gassed to death, military deserters had their ears cut off, women accused of adultery or prostitution were publicly beheaded.
It’s very hard to feel any sympathy for a man like Saddam Hussein, but I don’t believe in an eye for an eye either. His death by hanging will bring me no comfort.
Saddam Hussein was born poor in a mud-hut village near Tikrit on April 28, 1937. He was orphaned at a young age and raised by an uncle who idolised Adolf Hitler.
Via the military and what people describe as his cult of personality, he overcame his humble beginnings and rose to Iraq's highest office. In Arabic, his name means "the stubborn one" or "he who strikes".
On his 60th birthday he commissioned a copy of the Koran to be inscribed in his own blood.
Saddam has said as a military man he wants to face a firing squad…not the hangman.
A death sentence generates an automatic appeal process of a least 30 days, delaying any execution by months at least.
Regardless of what happens, I can’t support the death penalty. Surely, if Saddam has taught us anything it’s that killing is wrong. No matter who is dangling from the rope.
In any case, I strongly believe Saddam Hussein fears irrelevance more than he fears death. 20 years is a cell with nobody to pay him attention is surely a punishment worse than death.
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