At least they didn't drop him into a shredder.

Does it seem just a little hypocritical to anyone else, the way the execution of Saddam's half-brother, which accidentally decapitated him, is being so vehemently criticized by the Western Press and the Sunnis and Baathists who've had nothing to say about "Chemical Ali's" engineering of the gassing of Halibja in Northern Iraq or the regular beheadings of women for the crime of adultery in Saudi Arabia, and before the fall of the Taliban, in Afghanistan. By all rights, he and his fellow condemned, should have been hung on meat hooks and zapped with batteries and jumper cables, beaten bloody and force fed Drano, before being raped and having their throats slit. Of course, no civilized nation would want to employ people capable such abuse, or even the comparatively mild atrocities at Abu Ghraib, so they settled for hanging instead. The Maliki government explained that the severing of Ali's head was "an act of God." Apparently the Almighty thought that hanging was too good for him.

It all goes to show, as Phillip Carter points out, you can't win a Pulitzer with nothing but a cell phone camera.