Should Saddam be tried at the Hague instead?

[Emsworth]

No, he should not. Iraq has not accepted the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court--and rightfully so. I do not see why it should give up its sovereignty to some international body.

[Emsworth]

Oh and that sort of weirdness wasn't quite as rare as you might think... the idea of corpses being somehow untouchable is a pretty modern idea.

I believe that, in sixteenth century Scotland, the idea of posthumous punishment was carried to an even greater extreme. In one case, a dead man was summoned to face charges of high treason; his bones were exhumed, presented at the bar of the court, and endured a posthumous trial and execution.