I don't think it should have just been Sadam up there I think Bush or the Cabinet should have been there also, they left him in power after the Gulf so they should share some of that responicbility...
I do think he got what was coming to him... May be it was a too quick... But even still the end result is the same he is dead...
If you wanted a slow death for him, it would have been best to make a Tank to neck height place him in there with a Stock like fastening around his neck, have Sea water in the tank and add a new sea creature each week, add Dog Whelks first:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Whelk (Flesh eating snails) then things like Crabs, and small crustations, Pipe fish, Jelly fish etc... small creatures... then add Box fish, when they die the release a Toxin that kills the nerver system slowly...
But that will make us no better than him... but then again, the Hanging looked very half arsed... the Executioners looked like normal guys off the street in Ski masks... all dressed different... It looked very odd...