journalist3072
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Sat Dec-30-06 10:48 AM
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Please forgive my ignorance if this has already been explained, but why were the executioners hooded?
That seems like an act of cowardice to me. If you are going to hang a noose around someone's neck and kill them, don't you think you should at least own up to it?
This whole bit about hooded executioners just reminds me of some mafioso stuff.
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Sat Dec-30-06 10:49 AM
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1. The stills I've seen look like a typical terrorist video |
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Sat Dec-30-06 10:49 AM
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2. I would be astonished if they weren't hooded |
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Executioners are always kept secret from the people. Here we do it by have several people push the button or give the drugs with no one knowing which one pushed the right button or gave the fatal drug.
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journalist3072
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:13 AM
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9. Really? I was not aware of that. I just assumed that one person did |
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everything when it comes to executions here in the U.S.
But this whole thing has made me sick to my stomach this morning. Not that I was a fan of Sadaam Hussein's by any measure, but this just seems barbaric and sick.
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Sat Dec-30-06 10:51 AM
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3. It's not Kansas over there ,which is why Kansas belongs in Kansas |
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Religion supersedes any authority ,unlike here where Greed rules.
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Sat Dec-30-06 10:51 AM
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4. to protect their identities thus reprisal. nt. |
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Sat Dec-30-06 10:53 AM
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5. As I understand it there are 2 reasons - 1, they are acting on behalf of the state. |
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not themselves; 2, anonymity protects them from reprisal.
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Sat Dec-30-06 10:57 AM
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I don`t care what they say. The hooded men around Saddam were our CIA people. Look at the gig guy on the left and the two behind at the top of the stairs one with a armored vest on.They are CIA so the bull shit about us turning Saddam over to the Iraqis to wash our hands of it is just another lie by our our leaders.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:03 AM
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7. I thought the hood went over the head of the person being hanged. |
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The whole thing is so fucking barbaric. Why is it so much easier to sink to our worst than to rise to our best? Some days I hate my species.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:03 AM
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8. It was George and Jeb under the hoods (jk) nt |
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