A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I had a very long debate on the subject of capital punishment. We have opposite stance on it as she thinks it’s brutal and should end and I think it shouldn’t.I was extremely happy to read that the Iraqi government yesterday rejected calls urged by some 20 countries to abolish or suspend capital punishment.
What the opponents of the death penalty do not understand is that the situation in Iraq is far from stable and that to make it stable, convicted killers should understand there are harsh consequences for their crimes against humanity.
If we do not execute convicted terrorists, for instance, who blow up car bombs in a market where innocent people shop, killing hundreds, we let the other terrorists think they can get away with it and do the same. Theses executions should teach those who intend to do the same in the future a lesson that will cost them their lives.
Saddam, Chemical Ali, and the insurgents and militias who killed innocents do not deserve to live. Actually, the execution is the least that could happen to them.
There are other reasons why I believe Saddam’s execution was good. When the tyrant was alive and behind bars the insurgency war reached its peak, because he was an inspiration to the Iraq insurgents and the Arab foreign fighters. They had nothing to fight and the glue that was holding them all was gone. That, and other factors, resulted in decreasing the number of violent attacks which made Iraqis slowly move on with their lives and build their future.
