<span style="font-family:Book Antiqua">Saddam Convicted, Receives Death Sentence<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>BAGHDAD, Iraq (Nov. 5) - Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town, as the ousted leader, trembling and defiant, shouted "God is great!"As he, his half brother and another senior official in his regime were convicted and sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal, Saddam yelled out, "Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!" Later, his lawyer said the former dictator had called on Iraqis to reject sectarian violence and refrain from revenge against U.S. forces.The trial brought Saddam and his co-defendants before their accusers in what was one of the most highly publicized and heavily reported trials of its kind since the Nuremberg tribunals for members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its slaughter of 6 million Jews in the World War II Holocaust"The verdict placed on the heads of the former regime does not represent a verdict for any one person. It is a verdict on a whole dark era that has was unmatched in Iraq's history," Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's Shiite prime minister, said.</div></span>
Finally this is over with, and this was his inevitable fate anyways. But Yeah, Saddam supporters are gonna go nuts over this.
<span style="font-family:Book Antiqua">Strange, huh? Maybe it's a scheme to manipulate us all!!!</span>
I would much rather have him rot in jail. Death is easy, Putting him through pain and suffering is more like it.
I've never known this... make fun if you want but...what do they do when the death sentence is given? Are they shanked or what?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kingjamez @ Nov 5 2006, 06:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Then we have to pay for him to keep him alive.Which is a waste of money, send him to hell now.</div> Tens of billions of dollars have dissapeared and have been unaccounted for since we've entered Iraq. It wouldn't cost that much to keep him locked up forever. Not as much as an American prison. Like I've said for the America it costs more for a death penalty case then it costs just to keep a guy in prison for 50 years for a life sentence.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Nov 5 2006, 07:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Tens of billions of dollars have dissapeared and have been unaccounted for since we've entered Iraq. It wouldn't cost that much to keep him locked up forever. Not as much as an American prison. Like I've said for the America it costs more for a death penalty case then it costs just to keep a guy in prison for 50 years for a life sentence.</div>Well, it might cost Iraq like 10 bucks to buy a rope...because they're hanging him. Different situation there.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kingjamez @ Nov 5 2006, 05:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Then we have to pay for him to keep him alive.Which is a waste of money, send him to hell now.</div><span style="font-family:Book Antiqua">Well, Saddam isn't going to suffer because hell doesn't exist.</span>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC? @ Nov 5 2006, 05:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I would much rather have him rot in jail. Death is easy, Putting him through pain and suffering is more like it.</div>How about they torture him like on Saw or Hostel and do it on national television?Hear hear! :happy0144:
I would rather see Saddam sit in prison forever while listening to the same Christina Aguilera CD over and over and over...on a 24 hour cell cam. I just think it would be funny and more of a punishment.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC? @ Nov 5 2006, 10:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I would much rather have him rot in jail. Death is easy, Putting him through pain and suffering is more like it.</div>Yeah, I doubt Saddam is afraid of death, he'd be also more afraid of being locked up, also 2 wrongs don't make a right, what kind of example is it to say killing people is wrong, then killing someone...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Devlin @ Nov 6 2006, 01:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah, I doubt Saddam is afraid of death, he'd be also more afraid of being locked up, also 2 wrongs don't make a right, what kind of example is it to say killing people is wrong, then killing someone...</div> Judging by how Saddam freaked out by the verdict I'm sure he's scared to death of being hung.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Nov 6 2006, 05:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Judging by how Saddam freaked out by the verdict I'm sure he's scared to death of being hung.</div>I didn't see how he reacted...And I didn't know they still hanged people ( is it hanged or hung)
