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Saddam's Former Deputy Hanged in Iraq By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press WriterBAGHDAD (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's former deputy was hanged before dawn Tuesday for the killings of 148 Shiites, an official with the prime minister's office said.Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was Saddam's vice president when the regime was ousted four years ago, was the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites following a 1982 assassination attempt against the former leader in the city of Dujail.The official, who witnessed the hanging but spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made, said precautions...

LONDON (AP)—There is nothing kind or gentle about a hanging. It is a process scientifically designed to break the neck and choke a person to death as efficiently as possible. In the recent Iraqi executions, former president Saddam Hussein and two of his accomplices, his half brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were hanged from a gallows. In such judicial hangings, the victims are typically dropped a distance greater than their height through a trapdoor. At this point, the rope becomes rigid, and the force of the noose should break the victim's neck, causing immediate paralysis and...

Two boys in the US and Pakistan have accidentally hanged themselves while apparently mimicking Saddam Hussein's execution. In two separate incidents, ten-year-old Sergio Pelico was found dead in Houston, Texas having tied a slipknot around his neck while on a bunk bed. Meanwhile, nine-year-old Mubashar Ali was hanged from a ceiling fan while playing with his ten-year-old sister in Pakistan. Police said the death in America appeared to be accidental and that Sergio, described by relatives as a happy child who was very curious, had been "experimenting". The day before, he had watched the news of Saddam's execution on TV...

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I don’t know if any of you have ever seen a man (or woman or child for that matter) hang, or seen the results of a hanging. I have. I don’t mean the kind of modern hanging, which at one time, not so long ago, was a semi-regular method of execution, where weights or other devices were used to quickly snap the neck of the person being hanged. I mean a real “Hanging.” The kind where a fella twists and turns and convulses and chokes and ropes and ligatures slowly strangle him and crush his throat and esophagus as gravity...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - After spending half his life in a Pakistani jail, Tahir Mirza Hussain is scheduled to hang on his 36th birthday for killing a taxi driver _ even though a court acquitted him 10 years ago. Hussain, a British-Pakistani, claims he is innocent. He was cleared by a secular court but retried and found guilty in an Islamic one. He now faces execution June 1 unless President Gen. Pervez Musharraf intervenes. His muddled case, spanning two decades, is emblematic of Pakistan's corrupt and bifurcated legal system, described by a leading rights activist as "flawed" and in desperate need...

Jordan Hangs 2 for U.S. Diplomat's Murder Two militants were executed by hanging on Saturday for the killing in Amman of a U.S. diplomat. Laurence Foley, a 60-year-old administrator of U.S. aid programs in Jordan, was gunned down outside his Amman home on Oct. 28, 2002. Jordanian authorities have blamed al Qaida in Iraq's top operative, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for Foley's death. The two militants are Salem bin Suweid, a Libyan, and Yasser Freihat, a Jordanian. They were part of an 11-member cell headed by the Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi. A Jordanian military court found 10 of the cell members, including al-Zarqawi,...

Serial killer David Maust who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering three teens and burying their bodies in a basement died Friday, a day after he was found hanging from a twisted bed sheet in his jail cell... Jail guards had found Maust, 51, hanging in his cell early Thursday, about 10 minutes after they told him that he was going to be transferred to a state prison later that day... Higgins said Maust used a bed sheet braided into a rope to hang himself. In a note found by the guards, Maust admitted to five killings.

MIDI - IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS It's beginning to look like one sad Christmas for Saddam Hussein He tells his judge to go to h*ll...what is that awful smell His underwear's a week old, you can tell It's beginning to look like one sad Christmas for Saddam Hussein As we hear of atrocities...the entire world sees We'll soon bid farewell And although Ramsey denies it, the whole world knows it...the man is murdering scum He's plays defiant, but if you look closely, his face is certainly glum In his own mind he thinks he's still...

MIDI - DANCING IN THE DARK If you commit mass murder...and you're found in your spider hole You have a legal problem...to not be hung, that should be your goal As your trial gets closer...Mark Geragos no longer looks good You get worried...yes, we really think that you should There's one gun for hire...this guy knocks it right out of the park If things are dire...it is time that you call up Ramsey Clark Ramsey loathes his own country..he has proven that every time Of course, he worked for Johnson...the two of them are not worth one dime As...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lankan hangman Suranimala has never seen an execution, confesses the sight of the gallows makes him a little nervous and lacks the most crucial tool of his trade -- a rope. The slight, soft-spoken 24-year-old has spent his first three years in the job pushing papers in the chief jailer's office at Welikada prison in Colombo, but all that is about to change. Sri Lanka reactivated its dormant death penalty last month after a near 30-year-lull to combat a surge in grisly crimes and contract killings, which means it is now finally time for...

Amnesty defied as militants hang on to their arms By Jack Fairweather in Baghdad (Filed: 12/10/2004) Militants loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr failed to hand over substantial quantities of heavy weapons on the first day of a disarmament plan yesterday, bringing threats from the US military to launch more raids against the Shia cleric. Yesterday was meant to see Sadr's forces surrender their big guns in return for money from the Iraqi government. The amnesty was part of a deal to end months of clashes between militiamen and US forces in Sadr City, a huge Shia slum in Baghdad. An Iraqi...

MIDI - END OF THE WORLD When did they stop hanging traitors? Why didn't I get the news? Don't we all know that this country is through If we are sold out while we snooze There is a slob and a liar Whose worse than Tokyo Rose Don't we all know that this country is through If we just watch as sedition grows The Rosenberg descendants must be screaming The famous pair was born much too soon If they were a part of today's DemocRATS They'd have their own show or cartoon Many brave soldiers are fighting Keeping us...

Charlie Daniels: "You know I got some flack for writing this song. Some people called me some names. I don't care" Simple Man I ain't nothin' but a simple man They call me a redneck I reckon that I am But there's things going on That make me mad down to the core. I have to work like a dog to make ends meet There's crooked politicians and crime in the street And I'm madder'n hell and I ain't gonna take it no more. We tell our kids to just say no Then some panty waist judge lets a drug...

MIDI - ALL THE WAY Saddam needs a traitor Who would he pay as a traitor -- Galloway Happy to be serving His support remained unswerving -- Galloway Lower that a sewer rat is Look and that's what you see Whose account was getting fat -- his How come this slime is -- an MP Saddam needs a traitor Who would he pay as a traitor -- Galloway Some think he's just wacky But he's been the tyrant's lackey -- come what may Who knows if he'll go to prison He should be there today Some one's in need...

MIDI - YMCA Jimmy, you have created a mess Oh yes, Jimmy, Saddam is really impressed We know, Jimmy, you did what you thought was best But then you're a RAT scumsucker Jimmy, you have stood out from the crowd Oh yes, Jimmy, your party must be so proud We know, Jimmy, in Baghdad you had 'em wowed But then you're a RAT scumsucker Now Jim McDermott should H-A-N-G Right out in public he should H-A-N-G Giving comfort and aid to an enemy force He's a traitor…duh, well, of course McDermott should H-A-N-G Right out in public he should...