Countdown is on- Saddam Hussein execution

Marnin Grita Guy · Post by **Marnin Grita Guy** » December 29, 2006 6:54 pm

Saddam will be hung by 10:00pm EST tonight.

http://home.bellsouth.net/s/editorial.d ... blsadstrgt

Post by **SMLCHNG** » December 29, 2006 8:01 pm

There just aren't the right words.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » December 29, 2006 8:03 pm

We dont have capital punishment here- so not sure how I feel about it ....

but ... to hang someone is fairly ancient??? Electrocution would be better ....

However - I feel he does deserve this .....

Marnin Grita Guy · Post by **Marnin Grita Guy** » December 29, 2006 8:16 pm

SMLCHNG wrote:There just aren't the right words.

Somehow I knew that the first response would be from your household.

No extra meds in celabration, ok E.

Post by **SMLCHNG** » December 29, 2006 8:28 pm

Marnin Grita Guy wrote:Somehow I knew that the first response would be from your household.

No extra meds in celabration, ok E.

Well if E can't, I will.

Elrod · Post by **Elrod** » December 29, 2006 8:31 pm

Marnin Grita Guy wrote:No extra meds in celabration, ok E.

I'm gonna pretend I didn't read this part of your post.

I passed on my afterdinner meds so that I can have a cold beer at the appropriate time.

Elrod · Post by **Elrod** » December 29, 2006 8:34 pm

creeky wrote:but ... to hang someone is fairly ancient??? Electrocution would be better ....

Electrocution is a more modern method than hanging.

Many U.S. states have changed to injecting a lethal series of medications as the method of execution.

Big Jimmy · Post by **Big Jimmy** » December 29, 2006 8:42 pm

I personally think they need to bring back public hangings. Do it the way they did in the old west- You screw up everyone gets to see you be punished.

As in the words of Toby Keith and Willie Nelson:

Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street
For all the people to see

creeky · Post by **creeky** » December 29, 2006 8:43 pm

Elrod wrote:
creeky wrote:but ... to hang someone is fairly ancient??? Electrocution would be better ....
Electrocution is a more modern method than hanging.

Many U.S. states have changed to injecting a lethal series of medications as the method of execution.

Either would be better.
We get stories of Aussies getting hung in asian countries that were drug couriers etc ... while I dont agree with what people have done - hanging just seems .......

Zuke · Post by **Zuke** » December 29, 2006 9:08 pm

Here's the latest:

BC-Saddam-Sentence, 6th Ld,150
URGENT
U.S. judge refuses to stay Saddam's execution
WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. judge refused to stop Saddam Hussein's
execution Friday, rejecting a last-minute court challenge by the
former Iraqi president.
"Petitioner Hussein's application for immediate, temporary stay
of execution is denied," U.S. District Judge Colleen
Kollar-Kotelly said after a hearing over the telephone with
attorneys.
Hussein's lawyers filed the court challenge late Friday night,
giving the judge just hours to act before the execution was
expected to be carried out.
Hussein's attorneys argued that because the former Iraqi
president also faced a civil lawsuit in Washington, he had rights
as a civil defendant that would be violated if he is executed. He
has not received notice of those rights and the consequences that
the lawsuit would have on his estate, his attorneys said.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

AP-NY-12-29-06 2105EST

creeky · Post by **creeky** » December 29, 2006 9:40 pm

20 minutes to go?

All they had on our news break a little while ago was that it would possibly be some time today.

Zuke · Post by **Zuke** » December 29, 2006 9:52 pm

Looks like any minute now.

Elrod · Post by **Elrod** » December 29, 2006 9:58 pm

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,, ... 17,00.html

Sky News wrote:Reports have intensified that Saddam Hussein will be executed shortly, with Arabic TV stations saying a Muslim cleric has arrived at the execution site to hear his final words.

Sky News sources have said that witnesses have arrived at the site, while it has also been reported that a four-day curfew has been imposed in the former Iraqi President's home town of Tikrit.

Sidew13 · Post by **Sidew13** » December 29, 2006 10:07 pm

first words coming through on CNN
it has happened 10 min ago
NO official word yet

creeky · Post by **creeky** » December 29, 2006 10:09 pm

I am kinda scared on the fallout from this ....

Post by **SMLCHNG** » December 29, 2006 10:10 pm

FOX News is reporting the same thing.

mermaidindisguise · Post by **mermaidindisguise** » December 29, 2006 10:14 pm

I think I just heard all of heaven clapping

Sidew13 · Post by **Sidew13** » December 29, 2006 10:15 pm

mermaidindisguise wrote:I think I just heard all of heaven clapping

I'm just waiting for the "OFFICIAL" word

creeky · Post by **creeky** » December 29, 2006 10:16 pm

This on CNN ...

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is dead -- executed by hanging for killings committed during a brutal crackdown nearly 25 years ago –- Iraqi TV stations report.

One less person to share my birthday with!

Zuke · Post by **Zuke** » December 29, 2006 10:16 pm

Still nothing official yet, I'm watching for it to come across on AP.