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Saddam executed; Your thoughts?
Wayne:
--- Quote from: kelda_shelton on December 30, 2006, 06:08:00 pm ---That is what a good debate is about - its good we have the opportunity to do this. We wouldn't have in Sadam's Iraq.
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My understanding is that gay people won't have that opportunity under the new Shiite government in Iraq either. Under the Shiite government in Iran, they hang them (see the boys pictured above in Iran).
Wayne:
The US stands proudly with with our colleagues Iran, China, and the Congo in the right of the state to execute teenagers.
Besides Iran, only China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and the United States are known to have put juvenile offenders to death in the past five years.
The U.S. executed nine juvenile offenders during this period; the other countries are each known to have put one juvenile offender to death.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: wdj on December 30, 2006, 06:44:06 pm ---The US stands proudly with with our colleagues Iran, China, and the Congo in the right of the state to execute teenagers.
Besides Iran, only China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and the United States are known to have put juvenile offenders to death in the past five years.
The U.S. executed nine juvenile offenders during this period; the other countries are each known to have put one juvenile offender to death.
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I think I read something similiar when the US executed Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people including 19 children in a daycare.
injest:
--- Quote from: wdj on December 30, 2006, 06:27:15 pm ---My understanding is that gay people won't have that opportunity under the new Shiite government in Iraq either. Under the Shiite government in Iran, they hang them (see the boys pictured above in Iran).
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Wayne
It is fine that they hung those boys for being lovers...it was the majority opinion and their own country...they can kill whoever they choose. It was just and moral!!
What difference should it make to us? *SHRUG*
injest:
--- Quote from: kelda_shelton on December 30, 2006, 06:08:00 pm ---Jess - I'm not sure what you are getting at here. Can you explain what you mean a bit further?
Sadam had an appeal and it was not held. The Iraqi law WAS upheld in this instance - while some of us may not agree with it. While members of the defebce team were killed - so were there on the other side - and there was a TEAM in place to ensure that the trial was kept going.
And the gas chambers is exactly what Hitler did. And Sadam. Has anyone holding Sadam and his cohorts done this to the best of our knoweldge?
As I said before - we all have differing opinions in the subject - and there is no right or wrong answer against the death penalty.
That is what a good debate is about - its good we have the opportunity to do this. We wouldn't have in Sadam's Iraq.
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I am getting at...they (Nuremburg) waited until there was stability and the war was OVER before they started summarily executing people. I just do not understand this rush to execution...except in the light that the US leaders wanted it to be fast..
and Saddam DID rush people thru trials and execute them in a big rush...it is considered to be one of his crimes
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