# How will they execute Saddam?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-they-execute-saddam/326530
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 16, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-they-execute-saddam/326530 "2005-10-16T23:50:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-they-execute-saddam/326530/1 "2005-10-16T23:50:48Z")
Call it a wild hunch, but I’m guessing that when Saddam Hussein goes to trial for crimes against humanity, he’s going to be found guilty, and sentenced to death.
But my question is…what _method_ are the Iraqis likely to use when they kill him? Hanging? Decapitation? Firing squad? And would it likely be public, or private? Televised, even?
And, again, this is a question about a _factual matter_; not a debate on the death penalty or the Iraq war, and not a suggestion thread for _how_ Saddam should be killed.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-they-execute-saddam/326530/2 "2005-10-16T23:56:33Z")
Repeated viewings of the _South Park_ movie (and later episodes featuring SH) should be enough to induce a stroke or heart failure! 😃
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-they-execute-saddam/326530/3 "2005-10-16T23:58:27Z")
[3 hanged as Iraq resumes death penalty enforcement](http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/09/02/3_hanged_as_iraq_resumes_death_penalty_enforcement/), September 2, 2005
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-they-execute-saddam/326530/4 "2005-10-17T00:52:49Z")
I’m betting on the long odds:
I say he returns to power.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-they-execute-saddam/326530/5 "2005-10-17T01:47:10Z")
I say the same way Hoffa died. I.e., one day he’s there, the next he’s not.
AFAICT, he’ll still be alive when the Battle of the Sects/Minorities/Parties is over. The winner of that melee, even if an old time Baathist lackey, will make Saddam go away ASAP.
And that’ll be that.
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### Author:  [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-they-execute-saddam/326530/6 "2005-10-17T02:56:44Z")
I’m a bit perplexed as to why he has not been executed, or at least overtly tried yet, as an example of true regime change in Iraq. What’s the holdback? Anyone understand the true mechanics of this, both in Iraq and the US??
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-they-execute-saddam/326530/7 "2005-10-17T03:09:46Z")
> [@elelle](#):
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> I’m a bit perplexed as to why he has not been executed, or at least overtly tried yet, as an example of true regime change in Iraq. What’s the holdback? Anyone understand the true mechanics of this, both in Iraq and the US??
His first (and maybe last) trial will start Wednesday.