I am totally against capital punishment. The judicial system isn't good enough to always convict the right person. It isn't a deterrent. There are too many people prepared to confess to a crime they didn't commit. However horrible a crime is taking life is not justifiable. If a crime is horrible the more likely it is that newspapers and public opinion will encourage the police to 'get their man'. Life should in some cases mean life though.
Now to Saddam Hussain. He should not have been executed - it solves nothing. The manner of his departure was appalling. The films just play to the worst kind of public prurient behaviour. Iraq is now worse than it was before. The government there is now outdoing the worst aspects of Saddam's regime - and Iran will be the beneficiary.
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