Saddam hangs

TheStar.com - News - SADDAM HANGS (http://www.thestar.com/News/article/166499)

What are we doing hanging people in this day and age? I just don't get the whole capital punishment deal. Pretty barbaric if you ask me.

i dont think this is going to change a whole lot. probably make the violence worse

The pope probably said it best.

what did he say?

Ironic how the thread title is Saddamn (Sad, Damn...for those who didn't pick up on it)

well, it was pretty barbaric what that monster did to many many innocent men, women and children over the years.. I can see both sides of the fence on this issue about capital punishment, and ultamiatley I feel like there are crimes commitited that deserve no less than death. If it were up to me I would put to death EVERY single child molester and child pornographer that is caught and proven guilty, and before the next sunrise I might add. And there are other crimes I believe justify the death penalty. At the rate our countrys less desireables keep filling our prisons we have to in my mind speed up the process on the ones sentenced to death. Sitting on death row for 10+ years?? give me a break. I like the 30 day policy. Anyway like it or not thats my 2 cents. Have a great New Year everybody and be safe.

TheStar.com - News - SADDAM HANGS (http://www.thestar.com/News/article/166499)

What are we doing hanging people in this day and age? I just don't get the whole capital punishment deal. Pretty barbaric if you ask me.

dude, it's iraq. they are years behind the times

First, regardless of your views on capital punishment, you have to admit that Saddam Hussein should not be treated as just another death row inmate. He deserves a very public, humiliating, and cruel execution (given his horrific crimes, I don't think that's off base).

Secondly, Matty, don't say "what are WE doing hanging people this day in age." It's not we, as in the Americans are not hanging him. We caught him, but Iraq tried him, Iraq convicted him, Iraq sentenced him, and Iraq executed him. The US didn't hang him. It's their thing, do what they wanna do, we can't tell them who to sock it to.

Thirdly, I'm all for capital punishment. I'm not interested in paying taxes to feed death row inmates here in the states for the rest of their lives. I'm not religious; I have no moral problem with killing someone who, left to their own devices, would kill again.

First, regardless of your views on capital punishment, you have to admit that Saddam Hussein should not be treated as just another death row inmate. He deserves a very public, humiliating, and cruel execution (given his horrific crimes, I don't think that's off base).

Secondly, Matty, don't say "what are WE doing hanging people this day in age." It's not we, as in the Americans are not hanging him. We caught him, but Iraq tried him, Iraq convicted him, Iraq sentenced him, and Iraq executed him. The US didn't hang him. It's their thing, do what they wanna do, we can't tell them who to sock it to.

Thirdly, I'm all for capital punishment. I'm not interested in paying taxes to feed death row inmates here in the states for the rest of their lives. I'm not religious; I have no moral problem with killing someone who, left to their own devices, would kill again.

I think he means "we" as a people in whole, and I heard it costs more in legal court rooms to execute then put someone in jail for the rest of their lives.

Pope Benedict XVI's top prelate for justice issues, Cardinal Renato Martino, took a similar tack, noting Saddam's execution punishes "a crime with another crime ... the death penalty is not a natural death."

I guess it wasn't the pope that said it, but nevertheless.

At any rate.
I saw this getting political from a mile away.