http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6117910.stm

 

Death by Hanging.

 

This is going to upset some people. Will all hell break loose I wonder?

I think all hell's pretty much breaking loose on a daily basis anyway, but yeah, I don't imagine it'll magically make things all better.

What Kenny said, but I am happy about it.

Hanging !!
Thats an inhuman way to kill someone.
We have clever chemicals these day.

hopefully Bush and Blair will be next in the dock.

Iraq doesn't though. We looked for them but found nothing.

Meheheh *gives golden star*

Toughy. I'd have liked to have seen life imprisonment myself, but in Iraq and other countries they do have different laws and different punishments.

If the only question was the manner of death, what method would you have prefered?

Well hanging is quick and simple and leaves the body there to be seen by others I suppose. Can't really say too easily as I'm not an expert in execution methods.

Chopping the head off is quick and simple. Hanging is only quick if it breaks their neck, otherwise they get strangled to death. Unless Robin Hood appears in time.

And go educate yourself then. :P


Oooh, Scaphism sounds fun.

Penny for the guy?

I like it how our government who is against the death penalty and usually becomes involved when a 'briton' is sentenced to death in a foreign land, has welcomed the death sentence in this case. Didn't they criticise the talaban for having the death penalty?

Unlikely. Most of the US also allows the killing of convicted black men criminals.

I really, really like firing squads.

The irony is that while the occupying forces are engineering the execution of the hard man they put in place back in the seventies to hold the country together, they are looking around increasingly desperately for a hard man who could hold the country together...

I'm with Jon on this: If murdering innocent civilians in pursuit of your personal or political aims is a hanging offence (and though I can't condone capital punishment, it seems to me that it's as good a candidate as any), then I can draw no distinction that would send Hussein to the gallows and allow Bush and Blair to walk.

In some respects I regard them as even more evil, or at least more cynical. Hussein made no attempt to conceal that fact that he was a self-serving, murdering shit. Bush & Blair wrapped themselves in flags and righteous indignation whilst covertly phosphor-bombing civilians. It's somehow even worse that they made such a bollocks of achieving their desired ends.

I've always liked firing squads too. If ever i had to be executed, that's how i'd want it to be done.

I doubt he'd be very happy when he gets his office back.

 

"You bastards, i spent years working a perfect arse-groove into this chair. Grr, i'm so angry i think i'll destroy another village"