Breaking: Iraqi court upholds Saddam’s death sentence
posted at 9:35 am on December 26, 2006 by Allahpundit
Had the appeal dragged on until April, they’d have been barred from executing him under an Iraqi law that forbids the execution of people aged 70 and older.
Now that the sentence has been upheld, they’ve got 30 days to carry it out. An unnamed Iraqi official told AFP two weeks ago they’ll execute him “immediately at the very first opportunity” after the appellate decision is handed down, security permitting.
Sounds like we won’t find out about it until after it’s happened.
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steveegg on December 26, 2006 at 9:38 AM
No biggie. Kill it and move on to the next.
It would be nifty to see if the MSM calls it “barbaric”, if Iraq TV televises it.
Because it’s only noble to televise Americans being killed.
Ringmaster on December 26, 2006 at 9:44 AM
Oh, good. That legal hack, Ramsey Clark, is available to take on another client.
EF on December 26, 2006 at 9:49 AM
That’s the way Japan does it. Christmas morning, four death row inmates were hung. No advance warning to them or the public. The government can’t even announce the names of those executed (probably out of respect for their families). That seems the only way to go about it in Saddam’s case, too.
MayBee on December 26, 2006 at 9:56 AM
No surprise there. I’m sure many in the are upset that their golden goose is no-more.
dalewalt on December 26, 2006 at 10:08 AM
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No surprise there. I’m sure many in the EU are upset that their golden goose is no-more.
dalewalt on December 26, 2006 at 10:09 AM
The books are open. Hell is accepting new members.
JammieWearingFool on December 26, 2006 at 10:10 AM
Charge his family fifty cents for the bullet and a few hundred dollars for digging a grave him and the rest of his cohorts should be sharing.
Give him the same treatment he gave the Kurds. Bury him in a grave he can share with others like him.
One Angry Christian on December 26, 2006 at 10:13 AM
Ha! In Japan the four executed men were in custody from 31 to 10 years but a death penalty opponent claim the sentences were “rushed.”
Another opponent illogically states: “I realize a majority of Japanese support the death penalty, but that is why there needs to be more debate on the issue.”
Japan Times
EF on December 26, 2006 at 10:15 AM
Saddam is not worth a bullet…get a rope!
infidel on December 26, 2006 at 10:18 AM
I guess soon we can look forward to “Saddam Hussein (PBUH)”. I hope they bury him with the intestines of a pig.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on December 26, 2006 at 10:19 AM
Where did they bury his sons? I would assume having a grave of any dictator is risky. There was a reason why after the Nuremburg trials the condemmed were cremated and their ashes scattered in the river.
EF on December 26, 2006 at 10:22 AM
EF,
They buried what was left of his sons in a cuisinart and spread the remains on a pig farm in the heart of Israel. Sorry… wishful thinking. I think I’m leaning toward the death by a thousand cuts on this a-hole. 30 dyas from now would put the execution around Presidents Day. It seems ironically fitting.
SailorDave on December 26, 2006 at 10:31 AM
Make him dig his own hole (in a secret location), shoot him when finished, and then broadcast it (the execution) to stop the “Hussein’s still alive and will return” cult (ala adolf hitler), and give a few MSM folks a good reason to cry, relieving stress (for the lies they propagate) and allowing healing (which will allow them to recover and make even bigger whoppers).
tormod on December 26, 2006 at 10:34 AM
Dyas is a redneck spelling of days, for those less multi-ligual.
SailorDave on December 26, 2006 at 10:35 AM
They are getting the rope. The prescribed method of execution in Iraq is hanging.
steveegg on December 26, 2006 at 10:38 AM
the liberals in this country & the U.N. will once again be in mourning , now that their buddy Saddam will be executed.
Starblazer on December 26, 2006 at 10:45 AM
i wouldn’t be surprised if there was a tribute to Saddam at the U.N.
Starblazer on December 26, 2006 at 10:46 AM
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clause!
ronsfi on December 26, 2006 at 10:50 AM
We’ll see. Expect the outrage soon.
ScottG on December 26, 2006 at 10:53 AM
The sooner they hang this murdering ratbastard, the better.
And EF, wouldn’t it be wonderful if Ramsey Clark shared the same gallows, but one trap-door over, with him?
georgej on December 26, 2006 at 10:56 AM
Well, the reaction should be interesting and (though I hope not) terrifying. That said, I think that it would be fitting for a Kurd to have to honor of pulling the lever that releases the trap door.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on December 26, 2006 at 11:02 AM
Does anyone know whether Iraq does hangings American or Afghan style? I like the Afghan method better in this situation; noose, crane, lift. Squirm, baby, squirm.
bdfaith on December 26, 2006 at 11:07 AM
Was it still Christmas somewhere when they announced this?
We deserve the irony dontcha think?
And I vote for the SLOW and PAINFUL “style” myself.
seejanemom on December 26, 2006 at 11:15 AM
Well, I wouldn’t shed any tears. And perhaps an autopsy would reveal a slow growing brain tumor that might explain his behavior. While even cold stone murderers have the right to representation, I don’t see why Clark feels the need to repeatedly seek out the most infamous clients. If you remember, Saddam already had 40 lawyers before he and Clark hooked up. And frankly, after reading a number of Clark’s briefs and motions filed in other cases, he is not much more than a hack. So, what drives him? Fame? Money? I would love to know who pays him on all these cases. I would love to know who is paying him to represent Saddam. It can’t be cheap. The hotel and body guards alone have to cost some big bucks. All a mystery.
EF on December 26, 2006 at 11:20 AM
The Japanese “need more debate on the issue” because they obviously haven’t come to the right – er, left – conclusion yet! If they just talk about it for long enough they surely will come around.
Lehosh on December 26, 2006 at 11:21 AM
EF asks: “So, what drives him? Fame? Money?”
First of all, he is and always has been a committed leftist. Why Johnson tapped him to be his AG, I’ll never understand, because it gave him a podium.
Second, you may not have known it, but before the invasion, Clark was a REGISTERED lobbyist for the Saddam’s government. He was on the payroll of the government we went to war with and consistently OPPOSED the war against Iraq. And he STILL is on Saddam’s payroll and is being paid off by his family in exile. Frankly, he behavior comes close enough to the “giving aid and comfort” constitutional definition of treason, as far as I am concerned, to indict, try, and if convicted, execute him for it.
Third, you presented an interesting hypothesis as to why liberals are as crazy as they are: Brain tumor. The general insanity of their positions from gun control to taxes to what the 1st amendment means, and their perceptions, of reality, of history, of human nature, of the general and repeated failures of their policies that they continually deny, and their unique form of paranoia that has evolved into BDS, all have to have some source. Clearly, liberals’ brains do NOT work right and their perceptions are so far skewed that this explanation is as good as any.
georgej on December 26, 2006 at 11:34 AM
What he deserves, based on his life of cruelty, is beheading with a dull, rusty blade. What he will get will be much more “humane.”
Perhaps once he is really gone, his supporters will lose the will to fight. Wishful thinking, maybe.
Mallard T. Drake on December 26, 2006 at 1:41 PM
Hang him by the rope, then put the rope on ebay. Probably could build a hospital with the money.
right2bright on December 26, 2006 at 2:08 PM
Fire up the woodchipper!
Tony737 on December 26, 2006 at 3:12 PM
This is perfect for him, to be hung as a common criminal. It was also sadamned’s biggest fear. I hope he’s pissin’ his jail jumpsuit from today, all the way to the gallows.
No memorial/statue…EVER for this low class murderer. The video of him ordering all those men in ‘office’ as traitors when he took office will be just one of his hideous legacies.
Maybe Iraq can enter 2007 without Sadamned breathing.
shooter on December 26, 2006 at 3:18 PM
I’m assuming that the above is the redneck equivilant of multi-lingual? 8-)
Cmdr. Subfleet
cmdrsubfleet on December 26, 2006 at 3:43 PM
Im GLAD Ramsey was his lawyer. You want an incompetant lawyer defending a dictator.
Im still waiting for Saddam to make the challenge that he lost his trial due to an incompetant lawyer.
William Amos on December 26, 2006 at 4:13 PM
LightBright “…then put the rope on ebay…build a hospital”
You are the MAN! Great idea! Also, we could put the hanging on Pay-per-View and use that money to build a couple schools!
Tony737 on December 26, 2006 at 4:20 PM
Eight pigs can eat a 200 lb man in under two hours. (Does anyone remeber that movie with Brad Pitt called SNATCH??)
I know a cozy little hog farm in Katy, TEXAS…they race the on Fridays, right next to a mosque..
seejanemom on December 26, 2006 at 4:51 PM
The method for hanging in Iraq (or so I have read) involves an empty room with a metal pipe running across the ceiling, a tied off rope (to said metal pipe), and a chair. Tawdry, low tech, humiliating. Britain had better methods in the seventeenth century.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
Militant Bibliophile on December 26, 2006 at 6:30 PM
30 days? DAMMIT! I feel like Eric Cartman waiting the Nintendo Wii to go on sale!
Tony737 on December 26, 2006 at 7:27 PM
Anybody want to start a pool?
EF on December 26, 2006 at 7:41 PM
Human Rights Watch – Don’t execute Saddam.
Slublog on December 26, 2006 at 9:21 PM
Human Rights Watch – Don’t execute Saddam. Execute Zombie.
EF on December 26, 2006 at 9:38 PM
Fer gawd’s sake…just put a bullet between Saddam’s eyes. It’ll be a quick, cheap, painless death…unlike the deaths of thousands under Ba’athist rule.
They better allow cameras to his execution…he’ll be a youTube favorite!
JetBoy on December 26, 2006 at 9:58 PM
Saddam could rat out a whole lot of lefty westerners before he’s hanged if they don’t publicly speak out to save his neck from the hangman. As we learned during oil for food, Lindauer, etc., he had his little partnerships in the west.
It will be interesting to see if any Lindauer Democrats start making “save saddam” noises in the next couple of weeks…just instructing their media mouthpieces to start a save saddam campaign might not be enough, although I suspect we’re in for at least that much.
Perchant on December 26, 2006 at 10:24 PM
I wonder what Dems like Hillary or maybe Durbin will say?
maybe it’ll be something like: I’m glad Saddam has been sentenced to death for his crimes but I regret voting to remove him from office and our troops have done a damn good job… those Nazis!
Opinionnation on December 27, 2006 at 12:46 AM
I don’t think there will be an outrage due to people liking him. I think it’s more like the hoodlums that are terrorists will run around using it as an excuse to create more havoc. They care nothing but of themselves.
I’m glad there will be justice for the people he murdered. Hopefully they won’t tell anyone till it’s done and over with.
Highrise on December 27, 2006 at 1:39 AM
I think that I have an idea that even the pork-o-phobes might approve of. After they hang that bastard, they should string his carcass up by the ankles on meat hooks in a Baghdad butcher shop window. Then hang a sign on him saying:
“Saddam…the other white meat.”
CyberCipher on December 27, 2006 at 2:18 PM
MOMinuteman on December 27, 2006 at 7:08 PM