Mubarak Queasy Over Hussein Hanging
Mubarak Warns Against Hanging Saddam - washingtonpost.com
Saddam should not hang, but not because Hosni Mubarak says so. For obvious reasons, Saddam's trial must make Egypt's dictator uncomfortable. The last thing he wants to see is a precedent for accountability by a neighboring head of state. It was not worth a war to bring Saddam to justice, but there seems to be no doubt that his many crimes cry out for punishment.
As an opponent of capital punishment, I do not believe that hanging is the appropriate punishment for Saddam Hussein, even if he is more deserving of hanging than most. I have no doubt, however, that he should finish his days in a small concrete cell removed from the rest of humanity.
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