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The Iraqi court system decided on Sunday that Saddam Hussein will receive the death sentence for crimes against humanity.
The decision that called for Hussein’s death was a milestone in Iraq, but for some Americans the verdict stirred up inconsistent opinions about the death decision.
Hussein’s verdict came at a convenient time when most Americans had their minds ready for Tuesday’s election.
At the Tully Library voting polls in San Jose, Mark Picazzo said, “It is right he will die. He deserves it,” referring to the history of brutality that was charged against the former dictator.
The 1982 case that decided death for Hussein and seven other co-defendants, was when Hussein ruthlessly sought revenge over a small Shiite town, Dujail, north of Baghdad after an alleged assassination attempt.
Lita Ramos has a nephew serving in Iraq said, “It’s time for my nephew to come home.”
Ramos said she feels that her nephew will have to stay in Iraq longer if Hussein was to be executed. Ramos opposes the death sentence.
Joel Russell, a grad student taking political science at San Jose State University said, “Civil war could break out -- the Sunnis could further undermine the occupation,” if Hussein was killed.
The dispute between Sunnis and Shiite Muslims traces back to the beginning of Islam in the Middle East.
In modern day Iraq, when the orders were under Hussein, the Sunnis were the political controllers and the Shiites were marginalized.
“They just caught him – he should have been dead automatically,” said Joseph Fernandez, an elderly Filipino man who served in the Philippines Navy.
Russell spoke from more of a strategy point, “They should postpone his death until more order is distributed.”
Iraq isn’t stable,” Russell said.
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