More Saddam Thoughts

I don't really have anything more to say about Saddam's hanging, but I thought I'd pass along a couple of links to people who raise troubling concerns about the whole process.

Over at Findlaw, Joanne Mariner provides a Cliffs Notes version of questionable proceedings during Saddam's legal proceedings. For the record, one she does not include is the assassination of multiple defense lawyers (you think that would impact the proceedings?!?).

Meanwhile, at Slate, Christopher Hitchens (about whom I run hot and cold) really lets the US have it, arguing that we "helped to officiate at a human sacrifice." It makes one wonder if the California penal system would allow a Crip to throw the switch on the electric chair for a Blood convicted of killing another Crip - why let one side in a gang war enact vengeance via a theoretically neutral process?