Sorry, but i am not a supporter of a death penalty.

Yes, he was a tyrant, but the to hang Saddam is to good for him. Maybe he will going to be a martyr. Put him into jail for the rest of his life. Thats enough.

I respect your opinion but think the Death Penalty is justified in several cases.
1) Where the jailing of the person will just add to their 'profile' of who and what they are/were.
2) Cases where the crime is so huge as to overshadow time. Crimces against Humanity, which means LOTS of people, is an example. How can one lifetime in jail be enough of a punishment for ssomeone that killed tens of thousands of people? The individual forfeited their own life when they took that many lives of others.
3) Where the punishment of death is being used to deter future people from doing the same crime.
To willy nilly hand out the Death Penalty is a crime in itself. I believe that life in prison is a very hard sentence, IF it is actually carried out! It parole is involved, then life in prison is not life in prison. If we as a Society could come up with a way to sentence someone to life in prison without the possibility of parole, and then have NO Parole Board or Governor or President or ANYONE review that case, then it truely would be life in prison. Of course the case would have to reviewed to get to the point of no further reviews, but once reviewed, then that is it.
I think Saddam Hussein deserves to die for the Crimes Against Humanity that he was convicted of. He killed tens of thousands of his own Iraq Citizens because they were of another Faith!

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Well I think if they are going to conduct an execution it should be public. Otherwise what's the point?

Al Jazeera TV will probably show it live. I think they have a branch in New York and maybe Europe too.

as i stated in a prior comment - iT shall be LIVE (though only 'Portions') and iT is being done "LIVE" because the Iraqi Government has been told (by the People - who will basically RIOT) IF it's NOT shown "LIVE" - they (the People) " . . . want 'Proof' that he's been Executed . . . otherwise . . . oh boy . . .

watch the News (Worldwide) - there's a lot of Discussion goin' on 'bout iT . . .

Let's get a pool going on what time they'll hang this thug who produced sons that even made him look as kind and gentle as jolly St. Nick.

I say it will be Saturday 11 am Eastern time.

Place your bets!

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Let's get a pool going on what time they'll hang this thug who produced sons that even made him look as kind and gentle as jolly St. Nick.

I say it will be Saturday 11 am Eastern time.

Place your bets!

Ah..so you blame the father? That makes a change. ;-)

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Let's get a pool going on what time they'll hang this thug who produced sons that even made him look as kind and gentle as jolly St. Nick.

I say it will be Saturday 11 am Eastern time.

Place your bets!

Yahoo is posting reports that it could be within 5 hours from now
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061229/ts_nm/iraq_dc_40

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That would make it 5am Iraq time....before people leave for the day. I thought it would have been at the end of the day. We shall see.

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(as the Hangman said!!!!!)
STILL not rightr .....
OOOOOH! WTF .... just put a bullet in the sob ...

Sorry, guys ...
here in the U of K - its known as "Gallows Humour"
... and it is LEGAL!

A lawsuit has been filed in the US to stay the execution. Except the US has no Legal Jurisdiction.... LOL....

AP: Saddam will be executed by 6am Bagdad Time Saturday...
Its 1:AM Bagdad Time.
Also a video will be released..

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Dec 29, 5:11 PM (ET)

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA



BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The witnesses to Saddam Hussein's impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime's atrocities.

A top Iraqi official said Saddam will be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, Baghdad time, or 10 p.m. Friday EST.

The Iraqi government readied all the necessary documents, including a "red card" - an execution order introduced during Saddam's dictatorship. As the hour of his death approached, Saddam received two of his half brothers in his cell on Thursday and was said to have given them his personal belongings and a copy of his will.

Najeeb al-Nueimi, a member of Saddam's legal team in Doha, Qatar, said he too requested a final meeting with the deposed Iraqi leader. "His daughter in Amman was crying, she said 'Take me with you,'" al-Nueimi said late Friday. But he said their request was rejected.

Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld Saddam's death sentence, said he was ready to attend the hanging and that all the paperwork was in order, including the red card.

"Saddam will be executed today or tomorrow," Haddad said. "All the measures have been done. ... There is no reason for delays."

As American and Iraqi officials planned to meet in Baghdad to set the hour of his death, Saddam's lawyers asked a U.S. judge for a stay of execution.

The physical transfer of Saddam from U.S. to Iraqi authorities was believed to be one of the last steps before he was to be hanged.

"We have agreed with the Americans that the handover will take place only a few minutes before he is executed," a senior Iraqi government official said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

Al-Nueimi said U.S. authorities were maintaining physical custody of Saddam to prevent him from being humiliated before his execution. He said the Americans also want to prevent the mutilation of his corpse, as has happened to other deposed Iraqi leaders.

"The Americans want him to be hanged respectfully," al-Nueimi said. If Saddam is humiliated publicly or his corpse ill-treated "that could cause an uprising and the Americans would be blamed," he said.

Saddam's lawyers issued a statement Friday calling on "everybody to do everything to stop this unfair execution." The statement also said the former president had been transferred from U.S. custody, though American and Iraqi officials later denied that.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said opposing Saddam's execution was an insult to his victims. His office said he made the remarks in a meeting with families of people who died during Saddam's rule.

"Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him, and there will be no review or delay in carrying out the sentence," al-Maliki said.

State television ran footage of the Saddam era's atrocities, including images of uniformed men placing a bomb next to a youth's chest and blowing him up in what looked like a desert, and handcuffed men being thrown from a high building.

With U.S. forces on high alert for a surge in violence, people registered to attend the hanging gathered in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone before they were to go to the execution site, the Iraqi official said.

Those cleared to attend the execution included a Muslim cleric, lawmakers, senior officials and relatives of victims of Saddam's brutal rule, the official said. Aides to al-Maliki were waiting for U.S. representatives to arrive at his office to set the hour for the execution, the official said.

He did not disclose the location of the gallows.

Raed Juhi, spokesman for the High Tribunal court that convicted Saddam, said documents related to the execution would be read to Saddam before the execution. The documents included the red card, al-Maliki's signed approval of the sentence and the appeal court's decision.

Saddam has been in U.S. custody since he was captured in December 2003.

On Thursday, two half brothers visited Saddam in his cell, a member of the former dictator's defense team, Badee Izzat Aref, told The Associated Press by telephone from the United Arab Emirates. He said the former dictator handed them his personal belongings.

A senior official at the Iraqi defense ministry also confirmed the meeting and said Saddam gave his will to one of his half brothers. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Saddam's lawyers later issued a statement saying the Americans gave permission for his belongings to be retrieved.

An Iraqi appeals court upheld Saddam's death sentence Tuesday for the killing of 148 people who were detained after an attempt to assassinate him in the northern Iraqi city of Dujail in 1982. The court said the hanging should take place within 30 days.

Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, who also appealed in U.S. court, is expected to be executed along with Saddam. Also slated for execution is Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief.

There had been disagreements among Iraqi officials in recent days as to whether Iraqi law dictates the execution must take place within 30 days and whether President Jalal Talabani and his two deputies had to approve it.

In his Friday sermon, a mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf called Saddam's execution "God's gift to Iraqis."

"Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done! He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighboring countries and he is responsible for mass graves," said Sheik Sadralddin al-Qubanji, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, known as SCIRI, a dominant party in al-Maliki's coalition. "Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam."

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A lawsuit has been filed in the US to stay the execution. Except the US has no Legal Jurisdiction.... LOL....

AP: Saddam will be executed by 6am Bagdad Time Saturday...
Its 1:AM Bagdad Time.
Also a video will be released..

And rightfully so our courts rejected the lawsuit as groundless. Try filing a human rights violation lawsuit under Hussein's government.

(I know you were after humor , C/A. I'm just opportunistically and sneakily seizing your post as a cheap way to extoll the virtues of my country).

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A lawsuit has been filed in the US to stay the execution. Except the US has no Legal Jurisdiction.... LOL....

AP: Saddam will be executed by 6am Bagdad Time Saturday...
Its 1:AM Bagdad Time.
Also a video will be released..

And rightfully so our courts rejected the lawsuit as groundless. Try filing a human rights violation lawsuit under Hussein's government.

(I know you were after humor , C/A. I'm just opportunistically and sneakily seizing your post as a cheap way to extoll the virtues of my country).

I am glad its your country!

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Watching CNN right now, should happen any minute now, or, it may have already happend, and they just haven't reported it yet.

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Some television in Iraq is saying he has been hung 10 minutes ago. They are still trying to confirm it.

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Some television in Iraq is saying he has been hung 10 minutes ago. They are still trying to confirm it.

Fox just reported the same thing.

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I'm surprised their government didn't offer it on pay per view.

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CNN.com is reporting that Saddam is dead as well.
http://www.cnn.com/

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