In Texas, everyone remembers about McDuff getting paroled from prison "accidently" and, after his release, he killed 3 more innocents. This is on my mind terribly because I very well could have been one of them who was abducted at a car wash on night here in Austin years ago because I was there back in the day where folks didn't have cell phones. I feel fortunate to be unscathed, excepting in the haunting cries that I wasn't sure what they were at the time.
That being said, it is no surprise that Texas is for the Capital Punishment for the Death Penalty.
At any rate, I have heard some people upset that Saddam Hussein was hung in spite of his crimes. It isn't so much his dying, for some of those who didn't like his hanging, but the fact that he died such a ruthless death.
Circulating now is a video, supposedly (not verified) of his hanging. Don't watch it if you aren't prepared to watch it......
I don't know about you, but it seemed to be a relatively quick death for him, unlike so many deaths he had caused to others.
In studying criminal justice, one realizes that there are indeed limits....limits of how secure we can build the prison walls, limits of how many can be held in the prison system, limits of how many tries that we can do to rehabilitate the criminal, limits of how many chances we are to give someone who has committed some haneous crimes, etc. There has to be a line drawn somewhere where we have to say no more crimes from the proven criminal and, if making sure that they will do no more harm to anyone else means utilizing capital punishment, then capital punishment must be utilized I believe. They know the rules of the "game"; they know the laws of the lands and their consequences. They know the risk of them themselves being killed as a consequence of killing others, perhaps they even are having a suicide wish for themselves while they are killing others. Who knows?
While I don't necessarily believe in two wrongs make a right, we certainly can't risk any more McDuffs to get out and continue to seek havoc upon our societies in the United States or throughout the world.
Will I miss Saddam Hussein? No, can't say that I will.
Will other masterminds replace him? Surely, there will be others to carry on his traditions, as hard as we continue to find all the "Hussein's" in the world and attempt to eradicate all terrorism in the world.
Will we ever have peace in the world one day? We can only hope and pray.
