Death penalty for Saddam Hussein
Published Sun, Nov 5 2006 1:37 AM
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Justice is served.
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been convicted of crimes against humanity by a Baghdad court and sentenced to death by hanging.
He was found guilty over his role in the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail in 1982.
His brother Barzan al-Tikriti was also sentenced to death, as was Iraq's former chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bander
Former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan got life in jail and three others received 15 year prison terms.
Another co-defendant, Baath party official Mohammed Azawi Ali, was acquitted.
Source: BBC NEWS | Middle East | Death penalty for Saddam Hussein
Saddam was smiling as he was led away. Maybe he was thinking about all of those ACLU lawyers and the years of appeals he can milk out of the system.
Oh wait, that's right. He was convicted in an Iraqi court, by Iraqi judges. Last I heard they didn't answer to U.S. federal courts of appeals.
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He has been found guilty and sentanced to die, the reports say:
Angry, shaking and defiant, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death this morning by hanging for ordering the massacre of Iraqi civilians.
Is anyone really surprised? Were the mass gra...
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