Is the decision of Saddam Hussain death sentence is right? If yes what is the reason?
921692
No it is much better than he deserves.\n\nHe should be sentenced to imprisonment in a pig sty.
695420
what an unfair world! i support saddam's sentence but you ar so right, if his iraqis supporters are punished so should his US supporters who helped hide his crimes until they parted ways!
529579
Yeah I'm happy with it.  Let him rot.  If he got death it would have been the easy way out and he would've become a "Martyr" in the mind of his misguided islamic extremist buddies.\n\nHe'll be forbidden to have any human contact (except with guards) and caged in a small cell for the rest of his life.  Good riddance.
887010
Getting the verdict on Saddam shows progress in Iraq, a victory talking point. The trouble is Iraqi violence may acutally be up now because Iraqis believe they can influence US elections. Add that to the verdict, and you have quite an incendiary mix. In other words, annoucing the verdict now will likely lead to more deaths in Iraq than announcing it next week would. But announcing the verdict now probably will get the Republicans more votes, which is all that matters of course.
946126
foolish hypocracy.\nthere're lots of people who deserve being sentenced to death much more than Saddam
863298
Two separate issue.\n\nWas there any valid reason for going to Iraq in the first place? Arguably. Even though Bush changed justifications like some people change socks, it's arguable that deposing Saddam wasn't a bad thing. So, even though it was a uninlateral act of agression, and in violation of international law, it could be argued as a good idea.\n\nHowever, staying in Iraq 3 years after "Mission Accomplished" is a different question, and has a very different answer. It's not the job of the US military to play local police indefinitely, or the role of the US to force a country to change it's legal or political system. \n\nIt's bad enough we toppled their own govt. Whatever reasons we might have had to do that, don't justify remaining there, especially given how unwanted we are, and given the ongoing loss of life.\n\nSeparate issues. Going in the first place, arguable. Staying, no.
262405
Indeed, I wonder how long he'd last on the streets of Baghdad! I think one would have to be extremely politically correct to worry whether or not Saddam's getting a fair trial... Sad though it is - and a noble experiment - Bush's plan to bring democracy to Iraq has predictably turned to crap; give them democracy and they'll elect an autocratic cleric or madman. The Middle East typically produces characters like Saddam, essentially because that's what it wants. You can't educate people who are stuck in the Dark Ages.
365631
To ponder:\nIF killing is wrong, we should always set the example, even with people who have violated this basic principle.  It will strengthen that rule.  Maybe not today, not tomorrow, but eventually.\n\nUS is the only country at our level of social development that has the death penalty (as oppposed to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China, Thailand)\n\nOften, executing an unremorseful killer will make him believe he is a mayrter to his misguided actions.\n\nIt costs more to execute a criminal than to keep him in jail for the rest of his life.\n\nThe application of the death penalty in today's justice system is a crap shoot, at best (Sentenced to death rarely correlates to those most deserving of it, and being spared rarely translates into being less culpable)\n\nJust a few things to ponder, why it might be worth it to get rid of the whole messy business!
754522
DID it happen yet?????? \n\nI usually think death is the easy out of a punishment... i mean he should spend time in jail in the US where no one can touch him..... \n\nbut if hes staying in iraq in jail..... That govermnet is kinda unstable.. and anything were to happen to it, like it be overthrown they might just let sadaam loose and be their leader again.....so if he can't serve his term in the US, then yes i think his death is the best for everyone.
932504
YES HE SHOULD BE HANGED TILL DEATH.  IT IS LESSON FOR OTHERS AND JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THIS ATTACK.
791282
No one is better under a murderous tyrant. Saddam and his sons enjoyed torturing people. \nThey killed tens of thousands.  \n\nIraq is in turmoil.  Saddam's supporters and Shia factions are causing a huge amount of unrest. Then there are the foreign influences,  There is to be a verdict in Saddam's trial for killing the Kurds in the next 24 hours.\nAl Sadr's militia is torturing and killing Sunni's in Baghdad to try to spark civil war.   \n\nMany Iraqis are better off.  The "Marsh Muslims" in the southern part of the country were being killed off wholesale and an ancient way of life was being exterminated.  People near the Syrian border are fine too, and the Kurds,who have suffered grievously are truly happy in Iraq now, after being exterminated in Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq. \n\nNothing is all good or all bad. Our country has to keep foremost in mind what we are there for.\nThe entire mid East waits to see what will come.\n\nThe Hezbollah are trying to topple the elected government of Lebanon, funded and armed by Iran and Syria.\n\nPlease keep in mind that Iraq is on one side of Iran and Afghanistan is on the other.  Unless you look forward to real WW III against Muslims led by Iran, you'd better hope that Iraq stabilizes under its new government.
848727
I think it is.  The death of Saddam should put an era of Iraqi history to rest.  It may even act as a cathartic event for the country as a whole and allow the present govt. to move forward and tackle the many issues currently facing them.
42465
Yes.  However, we need to be certain of the condemned man's guilt.  The "reasonable doubt" bit is ok to send him to jail, but not to kill him.  \nLife without parole?  OK fair enough, but to put a 30 year old man in a cage and tell him we'll never let him out is just cruel....I think it's actually merciful to put him to death.
846599
My opinion hasn't changed.. I still believe they were responsible for 9-11 and they lied to get us into this war, but I don't believe in the death penalty and I don't believe in revenge.. A nice prison cell to protect society from anyone who kills is fine with me, and if it's someone lies to one person or a whole nation, causing them to kill someone, they should get life in prison just like any other murderer.
749053
The outcome of the trial was inevitable. Considering the environment in which he was tried (and rightly so!), he didn't have a prayer. After all, the current regime considered to be in power in Iraq was not put into place by Hussein, right? Regardless, with the undeniable evidence of his human rights violations, he took pains to hang himself long prior to America's second invasion of Iraq.\n\nI kind of agree with his lawyer that this was a political play for Americans...think about it, they caught him right before an important election...and now, they have convicted him again right before an important election.\n\nWhen did they start having legal trial verdicts on Sunday afternoon?
1036909
Yes.  \n\nThe debate over the reasons for being there and was it right or wrong really mean nothing now - it is done.\n\nNow the focus should be on providing the time and opportunity for the Iraqis to form and protect some form of stable government that is satisfactory to all the factions in the country.\n\nCan this happen?   Probably not.  I personally see little hope for a country where the religious leaders control the minds of the people as they do, have their own militias, and can murder the leader of a rival sect and get away with it.
55400
Political Charade.  Even Saddam admits that he would rather just be executed now than allow Bush to feel that he is just when he eventually orders it.\n\nThe names of the judges are secret.\nThe names of the witnesses are secret.\nThere is NO jury.\n\nAlso, one should be held to a trial that would be expected at the time of the crime was committed.