Margaret Beckett Disgusts Me

[poliphilo]

This country abolished capital punishment when I was a kid,  so why is a British foreign secretary welcoming the death sentence that's just been passed on Saddam Hussein?

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm opposed to capital punishment on principle. I think it demeans and brutalises the state that practises it.

OK- this is the decision of an Iraqi court and the Coalition powers are holding aloof- but, even so, I'd rather British politicians weren't crowing about it.

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

This pretty much sums up my position. I won't hold a candle at Hussein's execution, but to celebrate it? Disgusting.