Saddam Hussein executed

Saddam Hussein was a very nasty piece of work who deserved to spend the rest of his life in jail. However bad he was, though, the death penalty is still wrong for a number of reasons:

The fact that he's gone now and can't hurt another soul is good. But this whole thing has been handled in a very old-fashioned, retributive way. All we can hope for is that Iraq will pull itself back together, despite the efforts of a few thugs and foreign powers.
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*I should add that if you're going to try to deny that the US government has either (a) been involved in the way the trial was handled, (b) illegally invaded Iraq in a highly destructive and disastrous campaign; then you're very welcome to. You're wrong, of course, but it's always interesting.

The 'banned' video footage of Saddam's execution can be seen here. It's pretty gruesome and not recommended viewing for the sensitive. However, we've all seen pictures of Mussolini hanging from a meat hook and this is pretty much the same thing.
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