Posted on 01/17/2010 11:17:28 AM PST by ColdOne
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging on Sunday for ordering the gassing of Kurds in 1988, killing more than 5,000 in an air raid thought to be the worst single attack of its kind on civilians.
It was Ali Hassan al-Majid's fourth death sentence for crimes against humanity in Iraq. The previous three have not been carried out, in part because survivors of the poison gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja wanted to have their case against al-Majid heard.
Relatives of Halabja victims cheered in the courtroom when chief judge Aboud Mustafa handed down the guilty verdict against al-Majid, one of the chief architects of Saddam's repression.
Nazik Tawfiq, a 45-year-old Kurdish woman who said she lost six relatives in
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Geez, how many death sentences can you give a guy? Get rid of him already!
Now THAT is funny. How does one carry out three death sentences?
So hang him a little bit 4 times ?
A shame they don’t have a gas chamber so they can give
him a whiff of what he dealt out.
What breed of cat is he anyway?
Maybe they’ll ‘Draw and Quarter’ him.
Hang the B@st@rd already - there’s no need to have any further trials.
Lawyer: “I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is three of your death sentences were overturned on appeal...”
Hitler had that figured out. He had some of his personal enemies strangled until they lost consciousness, then revived and strangled again. I don’t know that such would be proper in this case but it can be done.
“Now THAT is funny. How does one carry out three death sentences?
I wonder if he gets an equal number of virgins taken away as a penalty......when he finally swings from an oak tree.
His execution date was set for October 16, 2007 but there has been many “last minute” delays. Now who knows???
Why not go for as fifth one?
My thoughts are that he was going to have a very busy attending physician.
Sounds like they’re working on a Nuremberg-like principle - they don’t just want to punish the guilty; they want to document the atrocities. (Yes, I am aware of the irony of the situation.)
Not exactly. If it's anything like Iran every village gets to mete out a bit of their own justice before he dies. There is a series of photographs on the Internet of a convicted child rapist/murderer who received 100 lashes before they hung him. The 100 lashes were dealt out by people from the different villages he struck in. I thought that was a good idea. The perp actually took it pretty well, no crying or begging as it was being done. But by the time #100 was dealt out he was probably pretty happy to feel the noose.
His attorney is trying to negotiate concurrent sentences. The litigation and appeals might take years.
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