Saddam Hussein sentenced to death

[kstar]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Yeah, but I think they lose their right to claim religion when they murder another person, which is generally against most religious laws.

Many prisoners find religion in prision, when they do, they usually know they were wrong and want their G*d to punish them for it. It isn't up to you to judge, if they find G*d, then they should be allowed to follow all of the tenets of their chosen religion.

I personally believe that the fact that the US/Iraq/anywhere practices capital punishment is shameful and I think that Saddam's death will only make a martyr of him.

[macallan25]

I don't think they should be "allowed" to do anything. I don't think killing a guy that murdered thousands of people is "shameful" one bit.....neither is, for example, executing a serial murderer who butchers women left and right. Maybe I just don't find it appealing to let the guy sit in prison with free meals and a bed to sleep in every night.

[cutie_cat_4ever]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Maybe I just don't find it appealing to let the guy sit in prison with free meals and a bed to sleep in every night.

Is it where part of our tax money goes to?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by cutie_cat_4ever

Is it where part of our tax money goes to?

Did you mean, "isn't it where part of our tax money goes to?". I think taxes are another issue all together, and actually I don't know what you are tyring to get at with this.

Frankly, I find it appaling that you would consider the lives of horrendous murderers as precious as the innocent people that they brutally killed. It would be hard to convince me that it is better to be humane and let them live out the rest of their lives.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by kstar

Many prisoners find religion in prision, when they do, they usually know they were wrong and want their G*d to punish them for it. It isn't up to you to judge, if they find G*d, then they should be allowed to follow all of the tenets of their chosen religion.

Why? Why should they be afforded more consideration then they afforded their victim? What if their victim was part of one of those religions where the body must be whole, yet the murderer decapitated the victim??

You're right, it's not up to me to judge...but it is up to the legal system to judge.

[kstar]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Why? Why should they be afforded more consideration then they afforded their victim? What if their victim was part of one of those religions where the body must be whole, yet the murderer decapitated the victim??

You're right, it's not up to me to judge...but it is up to the legal system to judge.

Maybe because I think that we as a society should be more humane than those that take lives? Maybe because I view all life as precious?

And the legal system obviously thinks that prisioners should be accorded the right to have their death observed in accordance to their religion.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by kstar

Maybe because I think that we as a society should be more humane than those that take lives? Maybe because I view all life as precious?

And the legal system obviously thinks that prisioners should be accorded the right to have their death observed in accordance to their religion.