Quite a fair bit of controversy over the legitimacy of his trial. Granted, there were many obstacles in the way of justice (death threats were sent to the judges and their families, if I am not wrong some of them were actually assassinated), but still.
Now instead of being remembered as a ruthless tyrant who will not hesitate to kill his own people, he will end up as a martyr for those who resent and oppose the extremely messy invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq by the US. Well done!
The timing of the sentence is also quite blatant, being so close to the US mid term elections, especially since the Republican party are falling being the Democrats in the polls.
Saddam had requested that if he were to be sentenced to death, he wants to face a firing squad and die like a soldier, rather than hang like a common criminal. Seems like he is not going to get his last wish.
Well at least he should be grateful that he is going to hang by the relatively painless method used by the US, where they drop the hangee suddenly so that the force breaks his neck, instead of like in Iran where they slowly lift the noose using a crane, so the hangee dies a slow and miserable death from suffocation.
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