Saddam Hussein.

[anapology]

I don't like it one little bit that we, as a society, are closing the old new year and beginning the new one with Saddam Hussein's execution. I feel it's a massive step back. Whatever awful inhumane things he did should be justly punished but there is nothing on this earth that can punish him enough. It's not even about what he did, because I do think he was a wicked man and the point i'm making isn't that he deserves any less but it makes me awfully sad and angry that this form of punishment is still thought of as right. Most countries have abolished capital punishment so why can't the rest of the world? It's no step forward, what good will it do to kill in punishment? Nothing. It takes more money to get through all the legalities that surround a death sentance [im talking in America with the *great and fair* legal system] than to keep that prisoner locked up for the rest of their life. All I can think of is the victim's [death row = just murder i'm assuming] families may have some peace of mind to know that the murder had the same fate as their loved one, but I honestly honestly would get NO peace of mind, no closure from knowing that the death penelty worked it's magic and wham someone else is dead, that's the end of it.

It's not the message we should give out when all we can hope and strive for is peace throughout the world.
I've posted about this before but It never ceases to shock me and fill me with horror.