Manner of latest Iraq execution 'wrong': Britain

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[faq]

This is the first I have heard about the guy's head coming off. Back on the live Saddam hanging thread I had posted a recommended drop chart based on weight (just to be helpful). And later when I watched the video of Saddam's hanging I thought at the time it looked like there was too much slack in that rope. Sounds like they didn't bother reading the instructions.

[My2Cents]

Well, you know, Tony, we shouldn't be in a position to dictate these things to a sovereign Iraqi government. "Completely wrong" would have been dropping them into a plastic shredder without a trial.

[Jeffrey_D.]

"Very nice video. I have never seen it."

Isn't he good? I'd never seen him either. Hope he's working on a new routine.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Here is a method that may work. Have a damper or a safety device in the rope that is set to release when the tension exceeds a certain value. If it happens too early, the hangee just falls onto the floor and sufferes a few small bruises. He is picked up, dusted off and sent back to the gallows with the trigger readjusted. After a few trial and error(involving falling onto the floor each time and being sent back)eventually it will happen just right, and the head will still be on the torso.

[calex59]

I guess they think he would be less dead if his head didn't come off. These dumb asses think it is ok to for muslims to behead people but it shouldn't happen to them. What asshats. Liberals, we should exile them all to the moon.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

In other words the rope tension should be high enough to snap the neck, but not enough to uncork the head.

[jdm]

LOL. You got me!

[faq]

The problem with that is that the bystanders would no doubt laugh at the guy when he fell to the ground the first couple of times. From what I hear, the difference between an execution and a lynching is when the condemned gets taunted.

Here is that drop chart: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759930/posts?page=157#157

If this chart I found on the internet is accurate, Saddam should have dropped about 5 feet. In the video it looked to me that he probably dropped several feet.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

And piano wire.

The high notes.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Here is a method that may work. Have a damper or a safety device in the rope that is set to release when the tension exceeds a certain value. If it happens too early, the hangee just falls onto the floor and sufferes a few small bruises. He is picked up, dusted off and sent back to the gallows with the trigger readjusted. After a few trial and error(involving falling onto the floor each time and being sent back)eventually it will happen just right, and the head will still be on the torso."

Wouldn't it be much easier to simply starve them for a few weeks so they aren't so fat when you string 'em up?

[Theresawithanh]

Ya got me too on that one! That was startling! LOL!

[toddlintown]

Going wobbly.

[sgtbono2002]

Sh-stuff happens.

[Armedanddangerous]

Folks

Here is the reason all the lefties are all in a huff about the hangings. I was reading a post in a blog in an area newspaper that quoted some cindy sheehan associate who advocated sweating the saddam family for information to hang Dubya with..in some insane obsessive compulsive search for a smoking gun on the war.

[WildBill2275]

"British Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman said that the way in which Saddam Hussein's half-brother was executed was "wrong"......"

I won't be too critical of the British, but it seems to me that the US Constitution's Amendment 8 prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment" had something to do with the British actions before they were expelled from the United States.

[massgopguy]

"Who knows what the penalty is for striking a Roman Citizen?" - Bob; History of the World

[juliej]

That is how I feel about the story and PHOTOS of the awful executions going on in Iran - including stoning women to death - yet you don't hear a word from the "feminists" who suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome. Remember - they loved Clinton, because he encouraged them to abort their babies.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

because he encouraged them to abort their babies.

Yep, 'encouraged' is the right word. To Liberals, and especially feminists, abortion is not merely one option. It is the prefered option, the recommended first option, something that should practiced as often and as regularly as possible. Abortion to them is a fundamental right, a sacrament,something that asserts their power and control over their bodies. It's symbolic. In fact I am sure many feminists get pregnant just so they can abort their babies and show people who's in charge.

[finnman69]

at least they did use a bungee cord or a trampoline

http://trampolinelol.ytmnd.com/

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Bunch of pussies