Posted on 12/26/2006 5:17:17 PM PST by RWB Patriot
NEW YORK (AFP) - Human Rights Watch urged the Iraqi government not to execute Saddam Hussein, describing the trial that convicted the former president for crimes against humanity as "deeply flawed."
"Imposing the death penalty, indefensible in any case, is especially wrong after such unfair proceedings," said Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch's international justice programme.
"That a judicial decision was first announced by Iraq's national security adviser underlines the political interference that marred Saddam Hussein's trial," he added.
Saddam was sentenced to death in November after a trial lasting more than a year for ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite civilians from the town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, after an assassination attempt in 1982.
A panel of Iraqi judges rejected his appeal and upheld the sentence earlier Tuesday, setting the stage for the ousted dictator to be hanged within 30 days.
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It's up to the President and the two vice-presidents, not the prime minister.
I don't know what else to tell you. What you heard on the radio is wrong.
Maliki would support it in any event.
Really, the only wild card in the next 30 days would be Talibani and he's an unlikely Saddam ally. My guess is Saddam will be strung up within three weeks.
Legally, it could be minutes after the death warrants are signed. It wouldn't surprise me if it's within a week. Getting it over with before there's time for national excitement to build (and possibly boil over) would be prudent.
Crazy loons. They should just say "the death penalty is wrong, that this guy deserves is so much is a great opportunity to showcase our humanity". I would disagree with them, but the point is they would have much more credibilty and respect doing that than trying to claim he might not really be guilty.
I'm sorry, all petitions to spare the life of Saddam must be presented in person at the same location in downtown Baghdad where brave young Iraqi men risk death by queueing up to be recruited as policemen.
Dick Dicker was doomed to looney leftism by the moniker his parents hung on him.
Wrong! He is a MONSTER in human shape...!
The hypocrisy is mind boggling.
I can think of a dozen other ways to do away with him that would be more just, more in line with his type of thinking on how to do away with people. The problem is, you only get to choose one.
I'd love to get a large group of people to follow this POS carrying buckets of...Rocks. On each rock would be the name of one of Saddam's victims. They would follow Richard Dick-head throwing the rocks at him. "Where were you when Achmed was fed feet first into a chipper shredder for trying to leave the country?" "Why were you less vocal when little 13 year old Jasmine was gang raped because her father opposed the Bath-Party?"
Any better ideas?
Yes, mine was Post #25 about a minute later ... we were composing at the same time. Your cite is correct about HRW and McVeigh. My point is that there was little, if any, 'protest' against his execution by the media or amnesty groups, nor were there any attempts to appeal through the courts for the next 20 years. McVeigh's final dispatch came relatively quickly and without much fanfare in the media. He got what he deserved.
He got what he deserved.
He apparently agreed as he himself waived all appeals. Otherwise he'd still be going through the 20 year appeal cycle.
I did read in this morning's paper that Maliki is the one who actually issues the order to carry out the execution.
But he has no discretion not to issue that order. It's just a matter of when within the 30 days to do it.
And everyone seems to be in agreement that sooner would be better. We almost certainly won't know until after the fact. Saddam himself will probably only get a few hours notice.
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