Can anyone explain to me why people who believe (as I do) that killing another human being is the worst crime of all, sanction execution (the worst crime of all)?

Surely anyone with a brain can see the moral conflict in this?

It is wrong to take a life, for whatever reason. In fact, I believe it is worse to ask or allow others to do that on your behalf because you don't want to do it yourself.

That's cowardice as well as murder.

How can ANYONE favour the death penalty?

Now they announce the execution will be televised.
Makes me sick to my stomach - humanity has turned the corner and wants nothing to do with decency or dignity anymore.
Perhaps Ch4 will build a series around it?

I can`t imagine anything worse than being forced to watch an execution, and I can`t imagine how horrid it would be, to be in the crowd.
Occasionally I have be caught out by turning the wrong page in a newspaper, and having a horrid vision stuck in my head for a very long time.
This barbaric act to "pay" for barbaric acts, and I am not in any way defending any human being involved in this, will only make things worse, and will merge two cultures that are "supposed" to be on opposite sides of a dreadful war, with many bereavements all in the name of a substance called oil.
But that`s only my opinion.

I feel executions even if "necessary" are made far worse by the gloating and glee that surrounds them.

(Where I used "necessary" I don't believe the Sadam execution is one)

If done it should be done with regret not jubilation. As for turning it into a public spectacle I feel shamed by my those that spectate.

Iraq is a bloody mess - literally and metaphorically.

What if they had a public execution and nobody came?

It'll be Sky. TPTB owe the Dirty Digger too much for it not to be News Media/Fox

The way the trial was conducted, the vengeance and malice throughout, the vicious desire for revenge, the delight and triumphalism and Bush saying it was a "fair trial". I pray he and Blair get an equally fair trial and an equally just punishment. Actually, no, as a human being I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It's stooping to their level.

And the films to be released as "proof".

I think I hate the fake justifications almost more than the deeds themselves.

And it`s reported that already up to 50 people have been killed in a "repercussion" car bombing.

Quite shameful.

which is more than I could say for the baying mob or Bush or Blair - or any of us tax payers who allow disgraceful behaviour in our name and with our money.

Let 2007 be the year when we say ENOUGH!

i too, am totally against the death penalty, it is gross they brought back public hanging via our tv screens, i could not sleep at night because of it.

I confess, Saddam on the gallows was pretty impressive.

The man was a bloody handed tyrant, andnever pretended to be otherwise (He wasn't that much worse than Pinochet or any of the other SA dictators we've propped up)

I'd have been more comfortable if they'd had the trial at Den Haag, but they came up short on the word 'Genocide'.

Nice to see that the Kurds have been sold down the river again... If the G-bomb had been dropped, chances are they'd have got their homeland in northern Iraq and the Arabs seem to hate the Kurds nearly as much as the Arabs hate the Jews... Turkey would certainly have been stamping it's foot and sticking it's bottom lip out...

I've not yet made any comment about this.

From the initial images of sinister, hooded henchmen (which was then "sold" as a reasonable execution of justice) to the eventual truth - a rampaging mob (foaming at the mouth?) demanding vengence and tormenting their victim even until the end - it was quite shocking, and shows that the West has sunk to new lows.

Bush (we are told) was in bed (so he could later distance himself from it). Bliar was on holiday and keeping his head down (he has STILL not made any comment).

The backfire is evident around the World. Libya not only had 3 days of national mourning but are now building a statue to Saddam !). Many other countries made no comment at all - which will frighten the West even more than if they had condemned it.

Oh Lord .... will they ever learn ?

(Isn't it also interesting that you CANNOT find a solitary person these days who supports the Iraq invasion? In the initial stages there were lots of gullibles around who had fallen hook line and sinker for the "official" line. Now they are ALL in hiding).