Hot Air first reported:  Breaking: Iraqi court upholds Saddam’s death sentence

Saddam loses death sentence appeal: govt official

An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that Saddam Hussein should hang for crimes against humanity, Iraq’s national security adviser told Reuters.

Under the statute governing the Iraqi High Tribunal, the death sentence must be carried out within the next 30 days.

With all due respect to opponants of capital punishment, if there was a guy who deserved it, it would be him.

Sister Toldjah makes an good observation.

Leftist groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have weighed in that they don’t want Saddam put to death. HRW opposes it on the grounds that the death penalty is always wrong especially in cases like Saddam’s where his trial allegedly wasn’t conducted “fairly” and AI opposes the DP because they believe the trial was not free of “political influence.”

Will it be televised? Should it be?

I have to admit, I am not sure if televising it is something I support. 

But consdering it, I guess if I have the stomach to wish his death, I have to accept the public display of that death.  Maybe that is a defining line in my resolve though.  Would I watch it?

And maybe that should be the litmus test for the pro death penalty people, they should have to be a witness to it as well.

We see death constantly before and after, but seldom during.  Hollywood of course would make his death amazing and a technical masterpiece.

In reality it will be grim and gritty.

Hot Air, also on the point:

Iraqis to videotape Saddam execution

Then the news appeared that he would die within the next few days. 

Just a banner so far on Drudge, but Saddam is saying goodbye to his family.

I’ve heard rumors, too.

I had kind of hoped for a Times-Square-at-Midnight countdown on New Year’s Eve, but hey, let’s get on with it.

UPDATE: MSNBC has the story. Eid starts Sunday.

Maybe a publically displayed hanging will give the Iraqis some closure.  God knows they need it.

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