Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging! [Archive]

ironroute

11-05-2006, 08:24 AM

Saddam Hussein was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for his role in a brutal crackdown nearly 25 years ago in Dujail. A five-member tribunal is meeting amid heavy security and sweeping curfews in Baghdad and elsewhere, as authorities brace for violent reactions.

Well thats the final of him... :)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/05/dujail.saddam/index.html

tokenuser

11-05-2006, 09:57 AM

Saddam Hussein was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for his role in a brutal crackdown nearly 25 years ago in Dujail. A five-member tribunal is meeting amid heavy security and sweeping curfews in Baghdad and elsewhere, as authorities brace for violent reactions.

Well thats the final of him... :)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/05/dujail.saddam/index.htmlI was listening to the BBC news this morning. Its not over yet - there is an automatic appeal process that now kicks in. Killing Hussein will probably cause more problems for Iraq (and the US) than it will solve.

I am guessing the sentence will probably be transformed to life in prison before everything is complete.

klitzy

11-05-2006, 12:22 PM

Hanging? Was I born in 1790 or 1990?

vulgar

11-05-2006, 02:45 PM

Hanging? Was I born in 1790 or 1990?

Yeah i know right. You think they'll do it like he used to execute people, and make it a public event?

vulgar

11-05-2006, 02:49 PM

I think this whole Iraq situation is a just a big failure. I mean, it's great that Saddam is out of Iraq. As a shiite muslim myself, I'm not too happy with what he did. And now, my bet says that they are going to have a civil war.

phatlip12

11-05-2006, 03:56 PM

And now, my bet says that they are going to have a civil war.

That pretty much started already. :(

vulgar

11-05-2006, 04:44 PM

That pretty much started already. :(

Oh yeah....

ariastar

11-05-2006, 06:27 PM

The death penalty doesn't solve anything, and it actually costs MORE to execute someone than to keep then in jail for the rest of their lives. I favor hard labor behind bars to executing someone who may be innocent in the end (not Saddam though), especially when the latter costs more in the end due to all the appeals and such that are automatic. Saddam cannot waive the first appeal.

terminalsikosis

11-05-2006, 06:53 PM

Saddam is old anyways, so its not like he has that much time left in his life. Life or death, he will come to an end in a few years.

nextgenxbox

11-06-2006, 03:30 AM

The death penalty doesn't solve anything, and it actually costs MORE to execute someone than to keep then in jail for the rest of their lives. I favor hard labor behind bars to executing someone who may be innocent in the end (not Saddam though), especially when the latter costs more in the end due to all the appeals and such that are automatic. Saddam cannot waive the first appeal.

How does killing someone cost more than maintaining them for life? I don't see how.... a couple injections and you're gone... those can't cost that much... and a hanging... how much does 15 feet of rope go for?

ariastar

11-06-2006, 07:50 AM

How does killing someone cost more than maintaining them for life? I don't see how.... a couple injections and you're gone... those can't cost that much... and a hanging... how much does 15 feet of rope go for?

At least in the US, the number of appeals granted cost millions in the end. A quick injection isn't that much, comparatively speaking. The cost is in the appeals. The attorneys, the court fees, etc..

briangilmore

11-06-2006, 07:55 AM

How does killing someone cost more than maintaining them for life? I don't see how.... a couple injections and you're gone... those can't cost that much... and a hanging... how much does 15 feet of rope go for?

paperwork, processing, appeals, etc. all extra, jailspace already accounted for.

Phatlip's right though. There's already a Civil War going on and not just in the Marvel Universe.

One question, though. I know that Arab Sunnis aren't even the majority there, but they wanted to take control and that Iraq was just sort a consolation prize to vigilantes from Arab countries, so why all this fight over a culture that was just given to them by the British? Why not just secede into three different states? The sunnis shiites and kurds have never reeeaally gotten along there and wouldn't they just be better off without all the fighting? Is it possible to split up the oil in the Shiite part, so everyone gets some, cause that's the only reason i can POSSIBLY see for them staying together. always a loveless marriage.