Two of Saddam Hussein's key aides have been hanged in Baghdad, two weeks after the chaotic execution of the former Iraqi president.
There were "no violations" this time, officials said, but Saddam Hussein's half-brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, was decapitated as he was hanged.
Well, he wasn't taunted, but they did rip his head off. I guess that's alright then. / snark
Jesus fucking christ. Maybe this is why the civilized world has abandonned capital punishment. What's next? boiling in oil? drawing and quartering?
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Oh boy. We'll all be monitoring YouTube to see THAT one! You betcha.
"The government has no plans to make public a video of the executions, Ridha said. Only a silent video of the Hussein hanging was released of that execution. Mobile-phone video of that hanging showed Shiite guards taunting the Sunni ex-dictator on the scaffold, outraging other Sunnis and sparking criticism of the execution as a sectarian lynching." [CNN]
Was the decapitation by design, or did they just miscalculate the drop?
In ye olden tymes, they actually had weight and drop tables to ensure that the neck would break but that the head wouldn't pop off, which I guess was viewed as unseemly.
Yes, I wrote a couple of papers on the history of capital punishment...
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Beauty --
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Eli, they botched it.
I imagine that they let some Shia guys who wanted revenge do the hanging.
Yours is the only explanation of this latest fiasco that makes some sense. Iraq did use hanging for execution pre-invasion, didn't they?
So if they'd know how to do it effectively, such a screw up must have been intentional.
Or Iraqi hangmen have hung out with us incompetent
Americans long enough to forget their skills.
Disgusting. One hardly knows what to do. Sigh.
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