Should SADDAM be hanged under international law?

gopher

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In order to hang under international law, he must first be tried in an international tribunal. This did not happen. Moreover, his was Iraq's legitimate government and under international law there is no authority for a foreign power to depose him or his regime. Therefore, there was no legal basis for the trial or conviction.

But all that is moot, for now.

What I found to be especially compelling is the fact that certain masked people were heard to be praising Moqtada al Sadr as they executed Saddam. Obviously, they could not have been government authorities but must have been plants put there so that Sunnis could become agitated that their hero was executed by Shiites. Further violence will ensue as a consequence thereby leading to anarchic civil war. This, of course, gives Bush more excuse to prolong his war so that Halliburton and others can increase their war profiteering.

Saddam was a murderous son of a bitch who deserves no sympathy from anyone. But Pol Pot, Suharto, Mobutu, and Ne Win were far worse and they got away with their vicious sh*t without anyone batting an eye. If retributive punishment under international law is a good thing, let's not be stingy about it -- let's spread the wealth.
 
Blackleaf

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It's too nice and too quick. A far more pleasant death than he allowed others of his own people.
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The reason for Saddam's instant death is because the Iraqi hanging technique has been copied from a technique invented by British hangman Albert Pierrepoint who was, by far, the most prolific British hangman of the 20th Century. In office between 1932 and 1956, he is credited with having executed an estimated 433 men and 17 women, including 6 US soldiers at Shepton Mallet and some 200 Nazis after the Second World War.



He invented a hanging technique in which the victim was dropped from a greater height through a trapdoor, which usually made the victim's neck snap causing instant death. This is what happened to Saddam. Prior to Pierrepoint, when victims were simply led to gallows on the backs of carts with nooses around their necks and the carts led away leaving them to dangle in the air, death could take up to 15 minutes and sometimes the hangman or the victim's family would pull on his legs to hasten death.

Albert was the last of the Pierrepoints to serve as Official Executioner of Great Britain and Ireland. As well as being the most prolific executioner he was also considered the most efficient, having been responsible for the swiftest execution on record. It took place at Strangeways Prison in Manchester in 1951. On the 8th May of that year James Inglis was led from his cell and pronounced dead just 7 seconds later!!

So you can blame Saddam's quick death on Albert Pierrepoint.
 
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