Originally Posted by: earthman buck
I kind of agree with elklander, though. Death does seem like a pretty light sentence for a guy who killed as many people as Saddam Hussein.

Put yourself in the shoes of a person that is sitting in bed the night before they KNOW they are going to be put to death... Put yourself in the shoes of a person who is walking towards the gallows. Put yourself in the shoes of a person who has the noose tightened to their neck...

I think the mental torment of that far out weighs any that you would face while wasting away in a jail... A person sitting in jail still has the opportunity to breath...

I don't think letting Sadaam waste away in a jail cell offers any comfort to the families of people that he has murdered either... I guess it's just the way you look at it. I know that some people are pro death penalty and some aren't... So it's just another one of those things that's never going to be settled.