Saddam Hussein

... is dead.

Angela Merkel indirectly criticizes the execution: We respect the judgment, but it is well-known that the federal government is against capital punishment. I wish the Iraqi people a path in peace without violence.

A Mr Ronald Balter on NYT's comment section: Saddam was convicted of executing people who tried to violently overthrow his government. I believe the penalty under American Law for violently trying to overthrow the government is also death. So Saddam was basically executed for doing what the American government would do in a similar circumstance, because he denied the revolutionaries Due Process.

David Elliot of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty called the execution pictures "ghoulish" and said in a phone interview that they are "more determined than ever to abolish the death penalty. It's not a question of whether it will happen, it's a question of when."

Amnesty International called the trail a fundamentally flawed process: Political interference undermined the independence and impartiality of the court, causing the first presiding judge to resign and blocking the appointment of another, and the court failed to take adequate measures to ensure the protection of witnesses and defence lawyers.