"What are we to do with people like that?"

Well, we don't sink to their level for a start, so we don't go around killing people (even though our governments seem happy to).


"First, hanging him is not murder, since it is to be done under the sanction of the recognized government."

An old argument that doesn't hold water - you are arguing semantics here. This is judicial murder aided and abetted by the US and it's allies. Killing people "under the sanction of the recognized government" legitimises all sorts of state murder all over the world - from the mass murder of criminals and dissidents in modern China to the atrocities of the Nazis. Saddams own government was a 'recognised government' - it just wasn't voted into power.