JU POLL: What should Saddam Hussein's sentencing be?

Published on October 18, 2005 By ----- In Politics

Ok, as the article says, hussein is supposed to go on trial wednesday, unless further delays are implemented. My question for JoeUsers, is should he receive the death penalty? Should he receive life in prison? Which sentence do you think is the ideal punishment, and why?

--For me, I would say life in prison. I feel that it would be worse than the death penalty. Death would be letting him off too easily. (Part of the reason is that i am against the death penalty...) Living the rest of his life in an iraqi prison would be some what a bitter sweet justice.

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Rightwinger

on Oct 19, 2005

I think he should just be summmarily executed without a trial.

He certainly extended no more consideration than that to his 'enemies.'

I would normally agree, but then we'd be no better than he was. This was the reason for the spectacle theymade of the Nuremburg Trials.....to show the world that law and fair, impartial (if there really could be impartiality in such a trial) justice rules over totalitarianism.

I think he should be sentenced to life in a paper hat working at the UN snack bar (of course, he'd have to shave his beard), or maybe as a janitor scrubbing toilets. After all, he made so much illegal money off them for so many years, why cut him off now? At least he'd be working for it.

Tova7

on Oct 19, 2005

I think they should put him in a burka in a very hot cell, and then scent his cell with the same chemicals he used on his own people.

Rightwinger

on Oct 19, 2005

Hanging in the public square. [at rush hour] There is no better deterrent to crime.

"Grandpappy tole mah pappy, 'Back in mah day, son;
a man had to answer for the wicked thing he done.
Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree;
Roun' up alla them bad boys, hang'em high in the street.
For all the people to see."

Why?

Cause justice is the one thing you should always find.

Moderateman

on Oct 19, 2005

I changed my mind. here's what they should do

Cut off his hands and feet, pull all of his teeth out, blind him, let him keep his hearing, let him beg for food for the rest of his life on the streets of bagdad.

-----

on Oct 28, 2005

Ouch, we *are* a blood thirsty group.....

remind me never to head that direction...

latour999

on Oct 31, 2005

I think he should just be summmarily executed without a trial.

I don't know about that, he has a lot to say for himself, a lot of information to give, and a lot of testifying to do. I am reminded of the words of Trotsky when he had the ice pick in his head. "Do not kill him! This man has a story to tell."

-----

on Oct 31, 2005

Hmmm....talk about a cold and cruel death....

A story, thats what hussein has, a story...full of BS...

Best Regards, Lucas

ParaTed2k

on Nov 01, 2005

I think he should get the death penalty. I do agree that it is far too quick and easy on him, but there isn't much can be done to him in prison that wouldn't cause the rest of us to become like him.

We have to remember that justice is the goal, not revenge. The only just punishment for his crimes is death.

-----

on Nov 01, 2005

Parated2k-

True, but just try to get AI, ACLU, or other uber-idiot civil rights extremists to agree with that...

--Lucas

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