Saddam Hussein sentenced to death
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/wo...rssnyt&emc=rss

Unfortunately, the punishment does not fit the crimes he's committed...

I believe he requested death by firing squad.

Should he have been drawn and quartered? Exposed to mustard gas? I'm not sure there's really a way to make the punishment fit . . .

its still a bit surreal that he'll be executed for his crimes.

Ok, so I think he should be punished for what he did and all....but why hanging? That's soo "middle ages" lol. Hello! We are in the 21st century...let's try not hanging him.

Um, do you really think Baghdad is set up with an electric chair (probably not any more 'humane'), or a hospital with the necessary setup for lethal injection?

There are still states that hang if i'm not mistaken.....

Washington & New Hampshire. In Idaho we still have the firing squad.

I'm not saying he has to get the chair or die through lethal injection....but I don't think he should hang.

It's not really a question of whether its "humane" or not...I just don't like hangings! lol

The last hanging in the US took place in 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging#United_States_2

i would like to know when/if the sentence will actually be carried out.

i think the news said he requested firing squad, but under iraqi law its hanging.

Maybe I'm a sick person but I think people sentenced to the death penalty should be killed the way they killed their victims. Screw the "humane" crap.

I heart the death penalty

I heard that this sentence automatically goes to a council-type where they have an unlimited amount of time to decide when the sentence gets carried out & if Saddam gets an appeal

This doesn't mean that states don't have the option to still hang or use other methods.

VandalSquirrel, I believe Oklahoma also can still carry out a firing squad as well at the request of the prisoner.

I think that would be to easy of an out for him. With lethel injection don't they give a sediative first to calm them down?

Call me a bad person but i think his death penality should be slow and torturous to fit the crimes he has committed that SOB.