Hanging Saddam Hussein. What's your opinion ?

@RAMONES (537)
Belgium
December 29, 2006 4:08pm CST
I just heard on the news that Saddam Hussein would be hanged as soon as possible. Maybe tonight or tomorrow ... I just don't think the death penalty is good. No human has the right to take another human's life. But even a murderer of thousands should be prosecuted, not executed. There are lots of other, more decent ways to punish someone, instead of just killing that person. I believe that is what differs us from animals ... PS : I'm absolutely not a muslim, but hanging Saddam just on the days around the Sheep Sacrifice Festival (or whatever it is called) sounds to me like a very political thing !
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@kiiizu (1901)
• Estonia
29 Dec 06
I don't believe that hanging Saddam Hussein is the wisest thing to do. Of course, he is a murderer of thousands, just as you said, and perhaps they were afraid, he will take escape from prison or whatever. But even if we are leaving moral reasons aside, and watch the case just from practical point of view, I personally would never vote for capital punishment. Hanging him makes a martyr of him, and that may cause even more problems.
@RAMONES (537)
• Belgium
30 Dec 06
That is just what I was thinking and fearing : they are making a martyr of Saddam. I think the problems that are awaiting Iraq now are not to be overseen.
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30 Dec 06
I totally agree with you. It will not be seen as a victory for Iraq but one for the American governments "War on Terrorism". Stop the world I want to get off!!!!!!!
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@amafrias (455)
• United States
29 Dec 06
Well, I have always been on the fence when it comes to Capitol Punishment, but with this man I think he should die. He is evil incarnate, and should pay for what he has done. And if they ever, wich I doubt, catch Osama, he should be next.
@unithorn (193)
• United States
30 Dec 06
Exactly. There are pros and cons that will be debated for decades yet. However, there is no question in my mind when it comes to this man. He is beyond hope, there is no doubt that he is guilty for the deaths of hundreds (and the grieving of millions of families, spanning the world). Kill him off. Televise it. Sell T-shirts, for all I care. Have big foam fingers and sell novely nooses (neece? hehehe). Just end this, for everyone who has suffered. It may not solve much of anything, but the closure for countless people will be far greater than his continual breath from a jail cell.
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@amitavroy (4819)
• India
31 Dec 06
i think this is not at all a good thing to do. he has ages a lot and so people could have given him life imprisonment rather than hangin him cause hanging a person is not a very good thing to do. and also he was a leader of a country and to treat him like this is also an insult to that country and this is not acceptable. and iraq has not taken this lightly. and also who told that bush to go to iraq and save thwe people who had actually no problem. man he just wen to take control over the oil over there so that they can control the ecnomy and extend their power more.
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• United States
30 Dec 06
in his case, yes i am in favor of it, since he has murdered thousands of shiites simply because he feels he is superior to them
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@RAMONES (537)
• Belgium
31 Dec 06
Well then ... What to think about Americans that have killed tens and hundreds of thousands because they felt superior ? Are you in favour of that ??? I am never ever in favour of that kind of punishments, no matter what you did. The time of an eye for an eye is long gone ! We are 2007 by now and should be civilised.
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@pratew3y (1893)
• India
30 Dec 06
baby - baby
till now he is hanged sorry late for the response
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• United States
30 Dec 06
The Bible says an eye for an eye therefore what it is saying is if you take a life then yours should be taken, too. Saddam Hussein took more than one life he murdered hundreds possibly thousands of people. Should he have been sentenced to life in prison? No. the punishment he received met the crime. May God have mercy on his soul.
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30 Dec 06
Well this is the question we have to ask the people of Iraq because they have gone through his regime and they know what it is like. neither you nor I have a loved one because of this man but those people out there have lost many a dear one , a loved boyfriend, a father, brother, sister under crazy circumstances. So sitting in our living rooms with all our loved ones we can't say it is wrong or right it is up to them to decide.
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@Xrated (3765)
• Pakistan
29 Dec 06
I am not saying that he is a good man but at this time it is not good to give him deth penalty because of this the condition of iraq will become more wrost
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@lulylove (1560)
• Brazil
29 Dec 06
I also am not mulçulmano, however I agree to you. Nobody can give one of God and fondness to take off the life of somebody. Thousands of forms exist of punished somebody without taking off the life. I believe that to make they to give service and still to continue imprisoned he would be one of the biggest punishments that it to die and not to only suffer more.
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• United States
30 Dec 06
I do not believe in public execution in makes me feel as if we are in medevil times. I do believe that the man was sentence correct however.
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@kingatul (849)
• India
30 Dec 06
No I don't consider it right to hang saddam .His case should have been considered on a humanitarian basis. Killing a human being isn't right at all. But it is very sad that this has happened.
• United States
30 Dec 06
you say no man should take another mans life but it happens everyday weather its publicized or not. A hanging is not of out time any more and it should have been handled better. I fear for those in Iraq because this isnt going to solve much at all.
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• United States
30 Dec 06
Well I think the man should be punished. I do not have any desire to watch the hanging. Even with a man as evil as him, I can not watch it. I do think that people should be punished to the greatest extent they can be according to their crimes. So he should die but then I do fight with that myself, because God says "thou shalt not kill" - But does that pertain to criminal acts? I am not sure. I don't know this is a very good topic to discuss though and a lot of people have different opinions about it that is for sure. I wonder how the people feel who have to do the actual "job" of hanging the criminals. We all do need to remember though that his own country sentenced him to that punishment. The Americans did not have anything to do with the decision to hang Saddam Hussein.
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• India
30 Dec 06
Executing Saddam is worse than the crimes he committed against his opponents... It is impossible to defend Saddam and to find reasons to be lenient with him. His crimes against his citizens were outrageous. He was a cruel and harsh dictator. He deserves to be punished. His fate as a person is not important. I hoped that he would be prosecuted in an Iraq with democracy and the rule of law.
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@RAMONES (537)
• Belgium
30 Dec 06
Yes, that's right. He was a cruel and harsh person, but aren't we lowering ourselves to his standards by taking his life ? If you watched the TV today you should agree with me. I am still thinking there are other , mor civilised ways of punihment ...
• India
30 Dec 06
saddam shudn't hav been hanged
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@fabiantan (210)
• Singapore
31 Dec 06
Just for interest, here is a video of him getting hanged: http://www.SaddamExecution.co.nr
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@nickventere (1420)
• Zambia
30 Dec 06
And Saddam deemd himself a sacrifice. What a coincidence. It seems all worked in his "favour", so to speak. However, on a serious point of view, Saddam's justice is a sham and a very bad precedence to future generations. The current interim government have set a trap for themselves. As soon as they are ousted, they will be hanged too. That is the way it goes!
30 Dec 06
Well this is the question we have to ask the people of Iraq because they have gone through his regime and they know what it is like. neither you nor I have a loved one because of this man but those people out there have lost many a dear one , a loved boyfriend, a father, brother, sister under crazy circumstances. So sitting in our living rooms with all our loved ones we can't say it is wrong or right it is up to them to decide.
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• India
31 Dec 06
hey hav u ever kno wat saddam has done to his people... he has almost killed a city of people... n dont say its a stupid rumour !!!!! he has tortured some !! more tan US millitary troops hav done to their captures !!!!! so i say wat has been done is the right decission... he shud feel the torture ..the pain... !
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@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
29 Dec 06
Yes I just heard the news that Saddam Hussein will be hanged around 2pm this afternoon my time, and yes I think it is the right thing to do to hang him for taking so many innocent lives it is dreadful what he did. It would be good if there was another way to prosecte him, and for a start animals don't do what Saddam has done to innocent people
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• United States
30 Dec 06
I am not muslum either but, I do believe this whole thing is politically motivated. What about the many sacrifices made on both side of this war. Many innocent people have did. Do we ever stop to think about the blood we are shedding and the loved ones we are killing to feed the hatred they already have. We are creating our own problems and setting ourselves up to be excuted. The deat of Saddam is just as unjust as this war and what of the Iraqi people when we leave, what have we created for them. I don't think they can ever regain a stable society. Hello! Did anyone say cival war? All I have to say is we need to think of how Christ treated everyone. Do you seriously think he would want this? After all, didn't he dine and walk with the heathen as their brother too.
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