SIR – What an appalling disgrace that Chemical Ali, who gassed 5,000 people, has been executed in Iraq!

Will the British Government be closing down our embassies in both Iraq and China now?

Does executing this evil monster bring Iraq down to the level of Chemical Ali?

The idea that a country can be deemed to be civilised or otherwise, based on whether it carries out capital punishment, is nothing more than a perverted ideology completely without sense, value or justice.

Gary Lorriman, North Walk, Harden