by Travis Casey

Created on: December 31, 2006   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

We all have a personal view on capital punishment. The topic is as explosive as religion or politics. One can see that in the United States alone where 50 states cannot agree if murderers should be executed or not. That's why each individual state has it's own laws governing the death penalty. 38 states will put you down, 12 states won't. Britain abandoned the death penalty in 1965. We could all get into a debate whether it is right or whether it is wrong. But these debates would be purely bias and emotional. It's a personal belief. I seriously doubt if any one or any argument would change my view on the subject, and I seriously doubt that I could change any one else's view on the subject.

Because the subject is so divided, we have governments which decide. It is safe to say that two countries were adamant that the world needed ridding of Saddam Hussein. America and Britain led the charge to oust Saddam and bring democracy to Iraq. Bush and Blair were then insistent that Saddam be tried in the newly found democratic Iraq. Saddam was to be tried by an Iraqi court. And so it should be.

So it is equally true that the world must accept Iraqi justice. Iraq does support the death penalty and obviously imposed this fortune (or misfortune) on Saddam. America did not ask for Saddam to send him to Guantanamo indefinitely. Britain did not ask for him to give him a cushy jail. Regardless of one's stance on capital punishment, the right thing happened. Iraq itself decide his fate.

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