I wonder what Eugene thinks that Saddam's punishment should be?

"Hangin's too good for 'im!

Burnin's too good for 'im!

He should be chopped up into itty bitty pieces and BURIED ALIVE!"

a bullet to the back of the head and an unmarked grave.

Grave first. Bullet later, after he claws his way out.

Industrial shredder.

He's fed into it feet first by people whose relatives were killed that way.

And bill his remaining relatives (daughters, wife, whoever now living in Jordan with a whole shitoad of his ill-gotten money) for the cost of EVERYTHING - guards, judges, electricity for the shredder, gasoline for the cars, everything expended to hunt him down, capture him, imprison him, try him, and execute him.

(Nothing like adding insult to injury to liven things up a bit. ;-p)

I don't buy the vengence argument. Bullet in the back of the head and dump in a grave. Saddam Hussein has overdrawn his account. Just close it. Don't bother with token barbarisms.

If you were looking, really looking for a way to punish people who commit crimes of this order of magnitude, I suggest imprisonment on the order of geological time. He probably can be found culpable in the death of at least 100,000 people. Just simply keep him alive and aware for 100,000 consecutive 100 year sentences. That's 10 million years. We don't have the technology now, but I believe that's the way it should be done.

A stealthed spaceship run by AI could do the trick. Just have it slowly random walk between the stars and return the criminal when his time is done.

He should be hanged from the nearest tree, shot, and then run over by a Buick.