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It's down to where you come from. Living in the UK, we have no death penalty and 99% of us Brits wouldn't dream of such barbarism! Yet in the USA some states kill or murder thousands of prisoners a year in the gas chambers or electric chair.
No one should be put to death, no matter what they have done IMO. Let them live in a cell for the rest of their lives to pay for their crime and give them the chance of redemption. Never heard of showing humanity? That's what makes certain countries better than others. At least the British Government has already gone on record stating they do not want Sadam killed under any circumstance.
Iraq's new rulers do not allow the death penalty, so now the uSA wants Sadam tried in a place where he will get the death penalty. Seems to me that the USA want him dead regardless.
Even one of the USA congressman has gone on record as stating the guy should be killed. Saying such a thing should have the guy drummed out of office before his feet touch the ground.
What benefit would killing Sadam do? Would it stop the USA from being hated around the world? Not a chance! Would it stop american soldiers from being shot? No of course not.
All it would do would make more martyrs of fundementalists who hate everything George Bush stands for.
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