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Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator and a man who without doubt carries responsibility for torture and murder on a terrible scale, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a special tribunal. You can read more about it in the Washington Post.

Should people who, like me, oppose the death penalty protest? It is not hard to emotionally sympathise will all those Iraqis who feel relief and even joy over this ruling, though I myself feel no joy. But even so, a principle is not much worth if, when it is most challenged, it can not be upheld. And it still seem to me unworthy and unjust for a state to kill a man who has already been rendered defenceless. Hussein, despite all the evil he has done, should not have been sent to the gallows. He should have been thrown into a prison cell, and he should have remained there until the end of his days.

However, it also seems like there are things more important to worry about than the death of a torturer and a mass murderer. The future of Iraq, for example.

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