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2006-11-05 Iraq
If convicted, Saddam to be hung, not shot
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Posted by Steve White 2006-11-05 00:03|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Bonus Points: Hanging is considered a way to dishonor the person being executed. Hence its widespread use in Iran by the Mullahs there.
Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-05 00:26||   2006-11-05 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Short rope. Let him dance.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-11-05 01:11||   2006-11-05 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 It would be more entertaining if they did a reverse hanging. Gently lift him off the ground and let a crowd beat on him with steel pipes until he's nothing more than a mass of quivering gelatin.
Posted by SpecOp35 2006-11-05 01:50||   2006-11-05 01:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I can't say that I would disagree with Koranic type punishments. God forgive me.
Posted by Oldspook 2006-11-05 02:15||   2006-11-05 02:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Lower him at one foot per minute feet first into an industrial shredder. Paybacks are such a twitch.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-11-05 02:21||   2006-11-05 02:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Posted a note, but since it may wait till it's queued in here it is:

Saddam -- is sentenced to death by hanging.
Other death sentences: Al Tikriti and
Chief judge of the former Revolutionary Court.

If the sentences are upheld after appeal, they will be carried out in 30 days.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-05 04:18||   2006-11-05 04:18|| Front Page Top

#7 The appeal (of all death and life sentances) is automatic - Saddam doesn't have to do anything. The appeal must start within 10 days. The appelate court does not have to re-hear the case, but merely review the record of the original trial. If the appelate court upholds the sentence, the verdict must be carried out within 30 days.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-05 04:37||   2006-11-05 04:37|| Front Page Top

#8 FOX
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein and two other men were convicted and sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for war crimes in the 1982 killings of 148 people in the town of Dujail, as the former leader, trembling, shouted "God is great!"

After the verdict was read, Saddam yelled out, "Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!"

Clashes immediately broke out in north Baghdad's heavily Sunni Azamiyah district.

Saddam initially refused the chief judge's order to rise; two bailiffs lifted the ousted ruler to his feet and he remained standing through the sentencing.

Before the hearing began, one of Saddam's lawyers, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, was ejected from the courtroom after handing the judge a memorandum in which he called the trial a travesty.

Chief Judge Raouf Abdul-Rahman pointed to Clark and said in English, "Get out."

In addition to the former Iraqi dictator and Barzan Ibrahim (Tikriti), his former intelligence chief and half brother, the Iraqi High Tribunal convicted and sentenced Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the head of Iraq's former Revolutionary Court, to death by hanging. Iraq's former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Three other co-defendants were convicted of murder and torture and sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

One defendant was acquitted for lack of evidence.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-05 04:46||   2006-11-05 04:46|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't care if they give him a gental lethal injection and have school children sing him soothing lullabys. None of it will compare to the eternity he is facing. Even if you don't believe in hell - you can understand that his own soul is a dark hell beyond our imaginations.

I will pray for him and forgive him. His eternity is his own.
Posted by anon 2006-11-05 05:56||   2006-11-05 05:56|| Front Page Top

#10 gentle.
Posted by anon 2006-11-05 05:57||   2006-11-05 05:57|| Front Page Top

#11 A Mod needs to post this as the headline today.
Posted by DanNY 2006-11-05 06:20||   2006-11-05 06:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Also,

Now the security detail needs to be examined to ensure that there is no way he is going to be slipped any means to defeat the justice of the court. You wouldn't want him to evade justice with an 'herbal tea'.
Posted by DanNY 2006-11-05 06:23||   2006-11-05 06:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Drudge

At this point they have links to BBC, AP, Reuters and SkyNews stories.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-05 06:51||   2006-11-05 06:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Got ROPe?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-05 08:30||   2006-11-05 08:30|| Front Page Top

#15 I really don't care how he dies, hanging, shooting, or herbal tea. He has a black soul and will get his reward in the end. The door will open and there he will join the other tortured souls of hell all welcoming him to his new eternal home.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-11-05 08:33||   2006-11-05 08:33|| Front Page Top

#16 Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Not impressed.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-05 08:43||   2006-11-05 08:43|| Front Page Top

#17 They gonna use a construction crane?
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-11-05 09:01|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-11-05 09:01|| Front Page Top

#18 #7: The appeal (of all death and life sentances) is automatic - Saddam doesn't have to do anything. The appeal must start within 10 days. The appelate court does not have to re-hear the case, but merely review the record of the original trial. If the appelate court upholds the sentence, the verdict must be carried out within 30 days.

I noted a Loophole, there's no time limit on how long the Appelate Court can take for their "Review", only on when the execution must take place after the review is completed.

That means the appelate court can stall giving any verdict as long as they wish. They can "Review" for years, if they want to.

Bad, very Bad. Saddam needs to hang as quickly and as publicly as possible.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-11-05 09:08||   2006-11-05 09:08|| Front Page Top

#19 Hanging n. Re: Law, Grammar. A criminal sentence with a dangling participant.
Posted by WTF 2006-11-05 09:34||   2006-11-05 09:34|| Front Page Top

#20 Personally,

I’d bind his hands behind his back, strip him down to his skivvies, and tie him to a post. Then I’d give every burrka wearing widow, mother, and grandmother who lost a son, brother, husband, or father a very sharp but somewhat dull steak knife and let them loose on the sacrifice. Televise it to the neighboring states, so their leadership can see justice in action. That aught to curl a mullah’s socks.
Posted by Procopius2K 2006-11-05 10:20||   2006-11-05 10:20|| Front Page Top

#21 Proco, jsut get Koranic. Bind him up, and put a big pile of paving stones hearby. Raise him slowly from a construction crane to 8 feet off the ground, and then let in the relatives of those who lost husbands/wives/children.

Don't even give him the dignity of a proper funeral - burn the body with a big ol Danish Ham.


Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-05 10:50||   2006-11-05 10:50|| Front Page Top

#22 ...a very sharp but somewhat dull steak knife...

Could you explain how something can be "very sharp" and "somewhat dull" at the same time?
Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-11-05 12:14||   2006-11-05 12:14|| Front Page Top

#23 Pointie end very sharp, long serrated edge very dull and ragged.
Posted by Procopius2K 2006-11-05 13:35||   2006-11-05 13:35|| Front Page Top

#24 Pointie end very sharp, long serrated edge very dull and ragged.

Nasty!

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-11-05 15:24||   2006-11-05 15:24|| Front Page Top

#25 SpyderEdge!!!
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-05 15:29||   2006-11-05 15:29|| Front Page Top

#26 He had his chance to be shot instead of hanged but he surrendered instead.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2006-11-05 16:49||   2006-11-05 16:49|| Front Page Top

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