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Times Online – Outcry over hanging of Saddam’s henchmen

Two of Saddam Hussein’s most senior former aides have been hanged in Iraq, their deaths triggering an outcry and accusations of foul play as authorities admitted that one of the pair was decapitated as he fell from the gallows – an image captured by official footage of the executions.

Hey, you want a nice, clean break, don’t you?

Hooded and wearing orange boiler suits, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam’s half-brother, and Awad Ahmed al-Bandar, the former head of the revolutionary court, were executed in the early hours of Monday. Barzan, who served as the former dictator’s intelligence chief, has his head torn off by the noose during the hanging, leading to suggestions that the hangman had misjudged the length of rope needed to carry out the penalty.

Hey, there’s worse ways to die. Which is pretty much why he was there.