>So you disagree with Nuremberg trial decisons?

A little before my time, and I would not compare the nazis with the iraq and sadam.
But anyways. The times were different as more western countries did have the death penalty up then.

And yes,I think that prisoning for life should have been a better choice. It would leave less of an martyr image. It would be better that some of them would express some regrets and seeing them age in poverty and sadness. It would be a great lesson to extremists.

But it is not so much that I'm totally against the death penalty: It should be reserved to very extreme violating against humanity and even then I would often see prisoning for life in isolation as far worse than the death penalty. Even in the case of sadam I could accept the death penalty, however not by a show case as this. What about all the other trails?? Did he not escape the punnishment from all the other crimes he made. What about finding out the details of all the other crimes??? will it ever happen. Was the execution a way to prevent the dirt off other cases comming to light ??

Walter,

>>Justice too often is about revenge rather than anything else..
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>>The death penalty is babaric regardless of the form. In that sense the US is totally backward to any other western country.
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>>"Thy shall not kill"
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>>>--Oh there were quite a few comments. The dutch vice premier, Zalm had some comments on the barbaric way hussein was punnished.
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>>>Most comments contained emotional pretexts and biases regarding the use of the death penalty.
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>>>I read some commentary about how it 'returned to the 18th century'....as far as the death penalty goes, I think maybe we need a little more of that.
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>>>There's too much concern about making it 'peaceful and painless', to the point where so-called civil rights activists scream their heads off when a condemned man suffers 10 minutes of pain because they can't get the needle in correctly.
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>>>Kevin