Saddam Hussein Execution

Recently I was watching the Saddam Hussein execution video on YouTube. What meant a leisure activity for me was actually the footage of a living being killed by his own breed. It is simply unacceptable. What meant a source of time pass for a millions of people , was actually much more grave that what it seemed to me on the video. I believe executing a person is one among the the worst things that human race has come up.
It remembers me what Agent Smith (in the movie The MATRIX) says to Neo "I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure." I was very much influenced by this statement. In essence what Smith says was a truth except the fact that he considered himself equivalent to God.
So coming back to the topic of execution of a human being, recently there has been a lot of public debate on this topic in India, reason being a frightful increase in number of cases where death sentence has been awarded. Lets be truthful to ourself; how justified is it to kill a person. Whatever the reason may be , but since God does not give us power to give life to somebody, how can we claim the right to take life away. Lets reflect upon the case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee who was hanged in 2004 after being convicted of raping and murdering a schoolgirl in 1990. Though the charges were gruesome and the how warranted is it to hang a person after 14 years. I believe the persons who fought all out to hang this criminal lacked on thing for sure and that was empathy. Did ever once thought what would Dhananjoy be facing after committing this crime 14 years back. He may also not remember the incidents on the date the death sentence was meted out to him. And with such public outcry and jubilation , what one forgets that we are killing somebody. Come on you damned people, how can you be so insensitive to someone of your own race. I call this civilized cannibalism.
And the worst part of this is that we are really happy about it. We publicize it as a grand event , debate it and finally take videos of it, which can satisfy the voyeuristic needs of an entire generation. At least we should make the death of a person dignified rather than it being used as a way to publicize an Internet portal.
Really we are like virus on the face of this earth and we should accept it rather wearing a shroud of innocence and just.