Ding Dong Hussein Is Dead
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Ding Dong Hussein Is Dead
| Sat, 12-30-2006 - 2:11pm |
I knew he was on trial but have not been watching the national news lately. I did not realize that he would automatically be executed. I guess I never thought that far ahead. I was shocked to wake this morning and find that he has been eradicated from our planet. Poof. Gone. Just like that.
Any thoughts?

I was also shocked when I heard yesterday that justice was being served so quickly...too bad it can't be that quickly for those on US death rows...
I for one, feel that it's about time, but that it's not going to make things automatically better, so we'd better be prepared for the backlash...
I was surprised it happened so fast as well.
I can't believe it's been three years since he was captured from that spider hole. It seems like yesterday that all of those inescapable images were being broadcast.
I did a very quick search on google in order to find some stats on capital punishment and the wrongly accused. I found some links which were quite old, surprisingly. These quotes were taken from one dated May 16, 2002:
"Mr. Glendening's action signals mounting concern about flaws in our death penalty system: the 101st death row inmate has now been exonerated; a Columbia University study has found that from 1973 to 1995, more than two-thirds of death penalty convictions were reversed on appeal based on serious, reversible error; and late last month in New York, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff announced that he was seriously considering finding the federal death penalty unconstitutional because so many death row inmates have been found innocent . . . Just last week, the 101st exoneration in the United States took place in Pennsylvania, where Thomas Kimbell Jr. spent four years on Pennsylvania's death row for murders he did not commit. With 101 death row inmates nationwide found innocent - some just days before their execution date - the nation should follow Illinois' lead by placing a moratorium on executions and conducting a thorough examination of the administration of capital punishment."
--I have absolutely no issue with executing the guilty, even if they have "found God", admitted wrong doing and asked for forgiveness. They still committed heineous crimes and should be punished as a result. It's the wrongly accused which is worrisome to me.
Edited 12/30/2006 3:51 pm ET by cfk_3
I feel the same way as you about the death penalty, but it wasn't US law that got him hanged.