It seems timely with my last post and all this talk about YouTube and cameras being everywhere, that at Saddam Hussein’s hanging the other day a cell phone in the execution chamber captured the entire event with sound. We hear Saddam speaking out and before he could finish the trapped door beneath him opened and we could hear his neck break followed by the noise of the witnessing crowd. It was a very graphic video that was not shown on television but can be seen across the Internet on sites like YouTube.
It has sparked lots of conversation and controversy about the hanging. Was it wrong to execute Saddam on the first day of the Muslim holiday Eid ul-Adha? Was it right for his executioners to taunt him before his death? There are a lot of moral issues that go into this. I don’t believe in any kind of capital punishment as it is inhumane. Saddam was a cruel and terrible dictator. That is a fact that cannot be denied. But death does not solve problems and create peace, nor does it teach anything to Saddam Hussein. Life in prison and confinement would have been a more humane way of punishment. The way the execution was carried out showed an example of the western world’s immoral and cold heart.
As seen below, the blog postings on Saddam Hussein over the past two months. November 5, the date Saddam’s death sentence was announced, and December 30, the date of his execution.
