I honestly didn't care too much about this one way or another. IMO, he's just one cog, albeit a sadistic one, in a huge machine of death, destruction and misery.
However, I have to say, that I am truly and totally appalled by the graphic news coverage of the hanging. My husband was watching it on public TV this morning ... right in the middle of prime cartoon-viewing time for kids!
Yes, he was an evil person. Yes, the US is going to see his death as a feather in its hat. However ... I still think showing an actual execution of ANYone on public television, on the MSN homepage on the internet, etc. is going a bit far.
He's dead now. Right or wrong, good or bad, whatever ... let it go.
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