Saddam aide decapitated in hanging

[Herman Munster]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2157383.ece

The head of Saddam Hussein's half-brother was ripped from his body when he was hanged at 3am yesterday, providing a ghoulish spectacle likely to deepen hatred between Sunni and Shia in Iraq.

A video tape of the execution of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, once Saddam's merciless intelligence chief, shows his hooded head lying some feet away from his body. The former judge, Awad Hamer al-Bander, was hanged with him.

"The convicts were not subjected to any mistreatment," said a government spokesman who claimed the accidental beheading was an act of God.

"Their rights were not violated. There was no chanting."

[Art_from_Ark]

1. What did they hang him with? Razor wire?

[rockymountaindem]

3. No, that just happens if they drop the condemned too far n/t

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Capital punishment is barbaric,

worse so when it's botched.

[theoldman]

4. He was old and weak. They dropped him too far.

Nice to know that these are our buddies. I have always heard that you are known by the company you keep. The Chinese use a bullet to the back of the head resulting in instant death. We consider them barbaric.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. The barbaric thing in China is the rampant application.

You'll get the DP for taking a bribe of for selling cocaine, for example. It's hardly limited to murder. They're miles ahead of everybody else in number of executions -- even of the US and Saudi Arabia.