I do not think it sounds ignorant at all. I feel bad in saying that I did not pray for any of them but I did feel badly for the life he lived and the decisions he made. I feel horrible for the many victims he not only caused the deaths of but their families. I do feel badly for his family.. especially the daughter who sought to be with him but was not able to as that is the daughter whose husband he had killed.. yet she still wanted to be with her dad in the end. I verbalized that I hope God would have mercy on him and that he somehow found how wrong he has been in his beliefs and thinking. I wish he had felt remorse.. if he did.. he never said it or showed it but only God knows. - Just MOO

From a strictly sociological stance, I would have to say yes, he was prayed for a great deal. The conflict around which Saddam Hussein rose to prominence was not of his making, nor was it something that had relatively recent roots. The trouble between these particular sects of Islam dates back hundreds and hundreds of years, to the time shortly after Muhammad's death. There has been almost unending strife between them ever since. This wedge was further exacerbated after WWI, when the Ottomans were defeated and the nation of Iraq was created, lumping together the two different branches of Islam we see fighting there today, Shia and Sunni, as well as throwing the Kurdish people into the mix. Saddam still has the hearts and minds of a great number of people, because even though he was a mostly secular leader and fairly Western and modern in that position, the rationale at the root of the his actions was based in religion. Those religions and the conflicts they have had still exist, even without Saddam. Also, there has been a not-so-surprising popular surge in sympathy for Saddam, because of the farcical manner in which his trial was handled, seen by many Muslims and others around the world as a puppet-court of the United States, and the dreadful video capture, and subsequent Internet spreading, of his hanging. This has resulted in a sort of martyr/cult-hero aura to be attached to him. The fallout of which has really yet to be seen. All of this aside, I would have to think that there are many religious and faithful people of conscious who are not only against capital punishment, but were also aware that this was a person, as misguided and horrible as he was. I would have to think that these people who hold there to be a judgment higher than that of man, would have prayed for his soul.