Tuesday 2 January 2007

Saddam 'forfeited right to life' says bishop

The Iraqi regime's decision to hang Saddam Hussein was defended by a Church of England bishop yesterday.

The Bishop of Lichfield, the Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill, said that anyone who deliberately murdered another human being "immediately forfeited his or her right to life". [...]

It would "be wrong to encourage Iraqi democracy on the one hand and to interfere with their government and legal system on the other", he said. Read more

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