You asked for it, you've got it:
~ Blue Jays ~
Posted on 01/17/2007 10:51:51 AM PST by Vote 4 Nixon
In comparison, Saddam looked like he was set to be towed through the Panama Canal: I suspect there was quite a bit of Dramatic License involved.
Oh, well, it worked.
ROTFLMAO.
Hanging is just as good as anything else, done right, and they did a fairly good job with these executions.
Personally I like the idea of scoring the rope before the hanging so the weight of the condemned breaks it and he tumbles to the floor like a sack of potatoes. Repeat as necessary or desired.
Broken neck, severed neck, it's all the same in the end. Doing the end-of-the-rope dance would have been good too.
There was a Republican analyst on H&C last night. Very attractive young A-A woman, Amy something, who I liked very well. Colmes tried to get her to admit hanging was barbarous. "If it's done correctly, no I don't think it's a barbarous form of execution." she stated clearly. I really liked that.
"the rope should be 5/8" in diameter"
That's the problem. They used a metric rope.
OK! Thanks! I'm assuming no human rights protests other than the usual that occur at a death sentence being carried out.
Because Hanging is the specified, official manner of execution of the Iraqi government. Like LI would do any good, now you've got bleeding heart criminal lovers claiming THAT'S cruel and unusual.
Note that the phrase is "cruel AND unusual", not "cruel OR unusual." Therefore, the way I see it, hanging is quite usual, and therefore legit, regardless of any cruelty involved.
I swear we ought to make every adult kill a puppy in this country as a rite of passage. Got to get over this blasted weak stomach.
An overdose of kinetic energy was what the Saddam brother got.
Oh yeah -- another thing I've learned. People say we should use rope hanging to execute cuz it's cheap. It's not. You can't reuse the rope or it WILL break.
You asked for it, you've got it:
~ Blue Jays ~
I'm not sure what the deal was with that knot. The rope itself didn't look too big. There is a prescribed number of times the rope is supposed to wrap around... seven if memory serves. Maybe we're just not used to seeing them.
Thanks. If that's the form of capital punishment for Iraqis, then so be it.
Mudd: Worse than that; do you know what the penalty for fraud is on Deneb V?
Spock: The guilty party has his choice: death by electrocution, death by gas, death by phaser, death by hanging--
Near as I can tell, all three hangings worked perfectly. The convicted are dead.
Fin
Meaning they conveniently don't believe that Saddam put living victims through plastic-shredders, feet-first.
I thought it was 13
Fine. Forget the hanging. A good sized bullet to the brain from Point blank range is just as efficient and it is harder to screw up as their is less planning and thought involved. Maybe more to spend on the clean-up, but who is counting.
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