Posted on 01/02/2006 10:16:07 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
I've got a good one the Romans used. Put him in a big gunny sack with a monkey, a snake, and a wild dog. Then toss the gunny sack in a river. His screams alone would be worth the price of admission.
I would hope that the Iraqi authorities (and it pleases me greatly I don't mean Saddam and his henchmen) will ask Saddam by which method he prefers to be executed...and then use one of the others.
How about placing him in a hill full of red ants?
-PJ
The firing squad is a soldier's death.....Hang him.
I never realized Saddam Hussein was Mormon.
The Gestapo used to hang people from meathooks - with piano wire. Took a long time to die.
How about we make a huge cheese grater about the size of a large slide and tumble him down it until he is gone.
This is by far, the best justice beset upon a beast. Of course, the crows, vultures and maggots will set in to do their justice upon an animal of abysmal proportions.
The shredders and acid baths are too expedient for the death of this bastard.
That's too undramatic. I'd go with the classic "covered with honey and tossed on a fire ant hill.
Just have a taxi drop him off in the middle of the Kurdish area of Iraq.
The British officer caught ferrying messages between Benedict Arnold and the Brits was hanged instead of shot because he was considered a spy and, therefore, not worthy of the death warranted a military officer. Seems Saddam is somewhat worse than a spy. Hanging's too good for him.
Now, as far as Saddam goes, I think they should just get a construction crane and restore him to his place atop that pedestal in Firdos Square, from which his statue was dragged down by the 3 ID.Nuremberg Hangman: No Regrets
By JON MARCUS
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, October 15, 1996 1:36 pm EDTREVERE, Mass. (AP) -- One at a time, they dropped through the trap door of the hangman's scaffold and fell still.
Gestapo boss Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Hans Frank, governor-general of occupied Poland. Slave-labor czar Fritz Sauckel. Austrian Nazi Arthur Seyss-Inquart.
In all, 10 of the men who led the Third Reich were hanged in Nuremberg on Oct. 16, 1946, for crimes against humanity.
``It was a pleasure doing it,'' said 78-year-old Joseph Malta, the U.S. Army military policeman who pulled the lever 50 years ago Wednesday. ``I'd do it all over again.''
Malta hanged 60 Nazi government and military leaders but became known as Hangman 10 for executing 10 top Nazis on that one night in the gymnasium of Nuremberg's Landsberg Prison.
``These were the ones that gave the orders,'' he said. ``They weren't sorry for anything.''
Malta was a 28-year-old MP when the Army asked for volunteers to hang the men condemned by the International Military Tribunal. He stepped forward, he said, because he had learned during his short time in occupied Germany about the Nazis and their newly exposed crimes.
``Being there and talking to the people there, it was easy for me to decide to do it,'' said Malta, who had sanded floors in civilian life. ``It had to be done.''
Malta soon found himself in Nuremberg and face to face with Hermann Goering, the Allies' prize catch.
``He was still the boss then,'' Malta said. ``He told us we wasted too much time. I told him we had to do things by the book. He said, `When the time comes to get me, I'll be dead.'''
Goering kept his promise, cheating Malta's noose by taking poison two hours before he was to have been executed.
As for the others, they were escorted one by one before dawn to two portable scaffolds Malta had designed so that the trap doors wouldn't swing back and strike the condemned in the head. Stacked nearby were 11 empty wooden coffins, one for Goering and one each for the 10 other condemned men.
A dozen somber journalists and generals from the major Allied powers -- the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France -- looked on as black cloth hoods were placed over the prisoners' heads. A German priest recited a short prayer. Malta pulled the level when he reached ``Amen,'' then went beneath the scaffold with a U.S. Army doctor to cut down the corpse.
Beside Kaltenbrunner, Frank, Sauckel and Seyss-Inquart, Malta executed Hitler's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop; chief military adviser, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel; interior minister, Wilhelm Frick; General Alfred Jodl; and anti-Jewish propagandists Alfred Rosenberg and Julius Streicher.
The hangings took just one hour and 15 minutes.
Malta left the Army in 1947 and returned to his civilian job. He keeps a tiny replica of the Landsberg Prison scaffold in the apartment he shares with his wife in this community near Boston.
Copyright 1996 The Associated Press
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