Saddam has been executed

[Chloe O'brien]

I do apologise to everyone if I have posted this in the wrong thread. but It has been reproted that Sadam Husan was exucated tonight at 10 pm, 7pm GMT, EST 6 am Ameican time. May god forgive him for his sins if this is true. And if not may the good lord save him, and let him serve his time in jail.

[CrazyLea]

good about tine. im sorry but this man deserved nothin but death ot life imprisimmen. he was awful.

[Jojo]

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at a secure facility in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). A representative of the prime minister and a Sunni Muslim cleric were present.

Footage of him being led to the gallows was later shown on Iraqi state TV.

Two co-defendants, Saddam Hussein's half-brother and a former chief judge, are to be executed at a later date.

All three were sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the 1982 killings of 148 Shias in the town of Dujail.

Holding Koran

A small group of Iraqis witnessed the execution inside a building at an Iraqi compound known by the Americans as Camp Justice, a secure facility in the northern Baghdad suburb of Khadimeya.

They watched as a judge read out the sentence to Saddam Hussein. The former Iraqi leader was carrying a copy of the Koran and asked for it to be given to a friend.

Footage broadcast later on Iraqi state TV showed a subdued Saddam Hussein being led to gallows by a group of masked men.

He was dressed in a white shirt and dark overcoat, rather than prison garb.

Saddam Hussein was led up onto the gallows platform and a dark piece of cloth placed around his neck, followed by the noose.

When the hangman stepped forward to put the hood over his head, Saddam Hussein made it clear he wanted to die without it.

The hanging itself was not broadcast.

The execution procedure took just a few minutes.

Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie, who witnessed the execution, told the BBC that the former leader went to the gallows quietly:

"We took him to the gallows and he was saying some few slogans. He was very, very, very, broken."

from BBC News.

[Abbie]

I saw the news when it said that he was going to be excuted tommorrow and well he has. Well after all the things he has done I have to say he deserved and I dont usually agree with being killed should be used as a form of punishment.

[Trinity]

Well, I am obviously a lone voice....

Executing Sadam Hussain makes us as bad as he was.

[Bad Wolf]

Well, I am obviously a lone voice....

Executing Sadam Hussain makes us as bad as he was.

i agree trinity......

there was another way of doing things.....life imprisonment would have been better i feel,
by killing him, they have turned him in to a matyre - there will probebly be many deaths carried out in his name

[Pinkbanana]

Well, I am obviously a lone voice....

Executing Sadam Hussain makes us as bad as he was.

i agree trinity......

there was another way of doing things.....life imprisonment would have been better i feel,
by killing him, they have turned him in to a matyre - there will probebly be many deaths carried out in his name

I agree, I was initally for him being executed...but think by him dying it wont bring about peace or any resolution. Its pointless. He will just become a martyr (which is what he wanted).

Keeping him in prison for the rest of his days would have been a better solution, I personally think.

[Jojo]

This is a hard one isn't it really though. In some ways, he deserved the death penalty for everything that he did and that is the way that things are dealt with over there and in many other countries. Then you also have the side where now he could well be now seen as a matyr and a hero to his followers, but had he spent the rest of his days in prison, would his followers tried to break him out etc? There are so many variables to this I think, and ultimately, it should have been for the Iraqi people to decide his fate, not the US or the UK or any other nation that decided to involve themselves in this whole situation.

[Katy]

im not one for corparal punishment, but in Saddams case i dont think anything else would have worked. I dodnt htink there is justice in killing another human being, but after all the thing saddam has done, i think different rules apply.

[samantha nixon]

i think its wrong aswell as he has got out the easy way he should have served life in prison then if people said he can come out for "good behaviour" then they should have killed him