A respected Flemish survey website, De Stemmenkampioen (The Voting Champion), recently asked if Flemings thought Saddam Houssein should hang or not.
The results: 52,6 % think Saddam should be hung, while 39,9 % think that, for ethical reasons, the death penalty should not be carried out. The rest, 7,5 %, had no opinion.
About 10.000 Flemings participated. There seems to be a clear division between the political right and the political left. Those who vote for right wing parties like Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest), CD&V (Christian Democrats) and N-VA (New Flemish Alliance) want Saddam to get the rope. The left wing parties, who don't base their political agenda on a religion, like SP.A (Social Democrats), VLD (Flemish Liberals) and the Greens are against the death penalty.
Or otherwise put: the Christian parties are pro institutional murder, just like it says in the Bible: "Thou shalt not kill, except when you really, really want to".