BBC reintroduces the scare quote!

Saddam 'could face death penalty' is the Beeb's headline today.

Well what a shock! Saddam might actually be executed, after a fair trial of course.
Not only is the UK in general against the Death Penalty (although I do wonder what its people actually think), the BBC especially abhors doing justice to megalomaniacal psychopathic murderers killing misunderstood and misrepresented rulers.

Actually, I am against capital punishment too. But I'd be at a loss as to what to do to a human monster like Saddam.