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NAVFC
Joined: 10 May 2006
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 Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: Video of whole Saddam execution. May disturb some viewers |
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http://one.revver.com/watch/130549
This video shows everything except for the snapping of the neck. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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I think that was over pretty quick.Instantaneous. Probably because of the 15 feet drop. More of a neck break than an actual hanging.
Grisly.
But at this point..lets remember all the people he mustard gassed.
He got what many, many other dictators have been fortunate enough to avoid. In a different era he might have been offered a pad in Geneva. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Isn't that the whole point of a hanging, that the neck be broken? Just as long as the prisoner isn't decapitated, I would consider it a success. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| Isn't that the whole point of a hanging, that the neck be broken? |
I thought it was all about asphyxiation.
gruesome discussion  |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| nautilus wrote: |
| jaganath69 wrote: |
| Isn't that the whole point of a hanging, that the neck be broken? |
I thought it was all about asphyxiation.
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Nope, that is a lynching. From wikipedia, the long drop
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| This process, also known as the measured drop, was introduced in 1872 by William Marwood as a scientific advancement to the standard drop. Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's weight was used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging#Methods_of_judicial_hanging |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| Well which one would be slower and more painful, thats the one he deserves. What a horrible looking hanging chamber that was too, they could have brightened the place up with a lick of paint or some fresh flowers or something, how crass. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Not to be a moralizer, what with my Catholic upbringing and such, but have we all decided that two wrongs do indeed make a right?
I'm being quite naive and idealist, I know. But I think a fresh way to start the "new Iraq" would be to end capital punishment and accord to this monster rights that he failed to give to his people. The moral high ground and whatnot. |
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jaganath69
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
Not to be a moralizer, what with my Catholic upbringing and such, but have we all decided that two wrongs do indeed make a right?
I'm being quite naive and idealist, I know. But I think a fresh way to start the "new Iraq" would be to end capital punishment and accord to this monster rights that he failed to give to his people. The moral high ground and whatnot. |
Given that Iraqi laws would no doubt be based on Islamic precepts of justice, it is highly unlikely that the abolition of the death penalty would be an issue. Moreover, it would seem a tad paternalistic to foist upon them a model borne of European Christian reasoning. I'm not necessarily pro-death penalty, but in this most extreme of cases I believe it was warranted. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:37 am Post subject: |
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What do you guys get from this?
Ok, he was a bad guy. Were any of you even remotely affected by his actions? Did he gas someone from your family? Seriously? Is this what today's society gets their rocks off over? Watching execution over the internet? So in watching him die for your own sick little pleasure, you became a bit more like him. |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| Watch it, he gives this quirky little grin right at the end and im sure i made out a raspy "jinju...you were my one...my only...eeerrrkkk" |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:17 am Post subject: |
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Revenge is considered a birthright in Arab nations. Even those Iraqi leaders opposed to the death penalty admit that it's nearly impossible to change this mindset.
And Islam breeds this sort of mentality, which fuels radical Muslims to action. |
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Hanson
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