Should Saddam Hussein gets Death sentence or not ?
931445
Yes, he should.\nBut it would have been better if he had pulled a Hitler and killed himself so no one would have to execute him.\n\nAs for Michael K's remarks, they predicted the same thing before Hussein was found guilty, and they were wrong.
646985
No death sentence.\n\nLife in prison or not, the sentence should make him repent what he/she did and his/her painful life (not physical) should be an example to people not to commit crimes against humanity.
894019
Absolutely. The death penalty should be administered to anyone denying the existence of God.\n\nOnce of course, his existence is proved.\n\nOver to you Heinz!!
827902
yes......... it has little to do with us, believe it or not...\n\nhe was found guilty in an Iraqi court by Iraqi people and the law in Iraq is the death penalty for these sort of crimes.... its was his country, his rules... if he was tried in the UK, there is no way he could have had the death penalty
331200
After he gets his fair trial he will most assuredly be executed.  The trial is something he did not give to others that he put to death, however the least we can do is show the world that he can get better treatment than those he dealt with.
1034171
He should execute.\nBut before that I prefer to listening/watching his advocacy about a lot of other subjects including, Iran-Iraq war, His supporters during the war, Chemical weapons that used during the war against Iranian and Iraqis, Slaughter innocent people during his regime, etc.\nThis court is wasting time just for one of his slaughters and I'm worrying about other crimes. It seems they don't want to plead them in the court.
171199
Absolutely. And then we should throw him in jail for all the people he's killed...both in iraq and here in the states (Katrina)
829266
i think he should have just been kept alive n let 2 rot in jail so his conscious would prick him (if he ever had one)\n\nbut i think its necessary to kill bush right away the longer he lives the longer we all suffer
757157
In what capacity should one order for the killing of somoene (Saddam in this case)???? because he killed some people ....by then doing this are we punishing them or correcting anything??/ (if anything we are making things worse)....LEt him rot in prison for the rest of his life.....u want the death penality 5 minutes he is dead....IS IT a punishment enough?????i do not think so relief really ...let him rot in prison am not for the death penalty........WE do not have the right to take life away even if we are trying to seek Justice NO
816413
I don't support the death penalty. But I've never lived through what the Iraqi people have lived through.\n\nThis is an Iraqi decision to make, and I have no doubt they'll want him dead. Can I really blame these people, who've endured unmentionable cruelty at the hands of Saddam, and now endure such hardship at the hands of both foreign invaders and civil militants, for wanting some type of retribution, some kind of hope? If Saddam's death gives them some hope, then let it be so.
936911
Personally I would agree, we're just giving the old fool precisely what he wants anyway (he does want death but by firing squad, not hanging).\n\nI would prefer that they sentence him to life in Abu Gharaib or permanent confinement in a spider hole, anything that will make him beg for a death that will never come.\n\nBut in the final analysis, we do not have that power. Only those judges or the Iraqi people can really decide what to do with him (and for the most part they want him dead).
925262
I think we should let him free!  Just drop him off in the northern Iraq area where all the Kurds are.  Make sure the families of all the people he gassed are there and give them weapons.  Then just drop off Saddam with nothing but the clothes on his back.  They would certainly take care of him.
952377
Sick, U.S. is not killing  him.The newly elected government\nformed by The Great George W. Bush and our Brave Loving Soldiers have ordered death by hanging.Do you know about the mass murders, the torture,Do You know before they torture a Man to a slow death, they rape the wives and child in front of him then kill the kids ,wife and then him.Then Saddam would go home , get the champagne,He and his sons would replay all the tortures for laughs.His nation is thankful.
915529
How quick are people here to jump blindly to all kinds of conclusions about this.  Firstly, most people are forgetting that your question as us if WE were sentenced to death....perhaps some people here should try to get their head round that bit of the concept first before assuming that anyone should be sentenced to death.  \n\nThere have been a lot of miscarriages of justice - in the UK think of people who have been released years after being sentenced because they were wrongly imprisoned in the first place. You can't bring people back from the dead so there's a moral and ethical question people ought to ask themselves about whether the death penalty - is something that is right in the first place.  Thankfully in the UK we abolished it but there are plenty of other countries that still exercise this sentencing option.  \n\nWhen is it right to sentence someone to death, and when is it not?\n\nOf course this question has probably been prompted by the news that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity.  Even in the case of such a tyrant he did not act alone - he had people around him who supported him in his actions.  Yes some will have done it out of fear, but for everyone of those there will have been someone who did it with the same intent as Saddam.  Whilst I abhor his actions is it right that he carries this alone?\n\nOf course, in an instance like this people's gut reactions will think I'm a bleeding heart liberal.  But now imagine you're in a train carriage with two other people.  One gets up and brutally stabbing the other before jumping off the still moving train.  You're found bent over the body with blood on your hands.  The CCTV wasn't working and all the evidence points at you.  Do you still believe in the death penalty?\n\nThere've been cases where people have been sentenced to death despite having the mental age of a child and not knowing the difference between right and wrong - they're particularly tragic.  And then there are the options themselves as to the way you die.  Lethal injection etc.  They say that some methods are quicker than others.  The quickest, I understand, is meant to take almost immediate effect and yet in some US States where they offer this the doctor still does not declare the patient dead for 30 minutes, suggesting that it is not as quick as they claim. If it has to be then surely it should be by the quickest method possible.  As if someone is to die a slow death then are we not committing an act of torture leading to death?  Don't we become as bad as the person who's committed the crime?
880317
Saddam was supposed to be hanged to death by now.  Unfortunately he has been sentenced to death after 9 months trial and 3 years have passed since he was arrested.\n\nI'm with majority of Iraqis and they are Kurds.  I would love to celebrate as Saddam was a buture who killed many hundreds of thousands of his own people during his regime.
749436
Yes and No.\n I dont support the death penalty as a whole but I do believe some crimes warrant it. You have to look into the extenuating circumstances on everything, nothing is the same.\nSaddam was evil and did torture his own people, but at the same time, our country supplied him with weapons and helped keep him in power, so where is our responsibility in this?\n Politically I think it will benefit the Republicans greatly and re energize their core base into thinking they are doing something.\n In Iraq I dont think it will help any since he at sentencing he ya know told his people to overthrow the infidels(us) \n So we shall see wont we.
781106
Undoubtedly, you're going to receive a lot of emotion-packed answers to this question, so let me try to be as dispassionate as possible. I have to admit, I'm torn on the whole permissability of the death penalty; but in this instance I think it has to take place.\n\nThe Shiia and the Kurds require closure on Saddam's era; and so long as Saddam lives he's going to be a lightning rod for every discontented Sunni. Yes, there will be some initial unrest, but in the long-run, I honestly believe it's in the best interests of all three groups if Saddam is taken out of the picture. While he lives, I just don't see how these groups have even the slightest chance of making a go of even attempting to pull together something that looks like a nation.\n\nThere is such a thing as "raisons d'etat;" and for "reasons of state" I believe he has to go.