Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death, after a court found him guilty of crimes against humanity for ordering killings in the town of Dujail in 1982.

Guards led Saddam away after he shouted "long live Iraq, long live the nation" in response to the verdict.

Iraq's former Chief Justice, Awad Hamad al-Bandar, was also sentenced to death by hanging for presiding over hearings that ordered the killings of about 150 people in Dujail. Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim, was another sentenced to death.

Saddam's former vice-president, Taha Yassin Ramadan was sentenced to life in jail.

Other defendants who were tried with Saddam also appeared before the verdict hearing.

The first, a minor Ba'ath party official, was acquitted. Three others were then sentenced to jail terms of at least 15 years.

Some of the tightest security ever seen in Iraq has been put in place for the hearing, after supporters of Saddam threatened bloodshed if he was sentenced to death.

Soon after the verdict was announced, Sky News reported a machine-gun battle broke out in northern Baghdad between police and unidentified gunmen. However, the Associated Press reported celebratory gunfire across Baghdad.

A panel of appeal judges will now review the death sentence against Saddam. If no grounds to appeal the decision are found, the former dictator may be executed within 30 days.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/061105/23/11b22.html

Meh. Not exactly a shock. The verdict was a foregone conclusion.

At least his trial and everything is over now.srug

I think this was the obvious out come ...i think if he was sentenced to anything other that people would of thought it was a conspiracy or something

Originally posted by ladygrim
I think this was the obvious out come ...i think if he was sentenced to anything other that people would of thought it was a conspiracy or something

Of course ✅

I am happy he is sentenced to death.

There was this really funny MAD comic, where it says, "Sadam's favorite methods of death." And it shows all these people being tortured to death, and then you see him in a courtroom saying, "Uh.... shooting team?"

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You don't find that funny?

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Bunch of Saddam Husseins are sentencing a Saddam Hussein to death. Nice.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Bunch of Saddam Husseins are sentencing a Saddam Hussein to death. Nice.

My thoughts as well. Maybe not as radical. But still, it has this weird..lets kill a killer and feel good about ourselves anyways feeling to it, doesn't it?

Oh great now they gonna make a Martyr outta him. Thats gonna make him just as powerful after death as he was in life.

They should have left him to rot in a prison somewhere.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Bunch of Saddam Husseins are sentencing a Saddam Hussein to death. Nice.

No kidding.

The American lust for blood continues. Bush thinks he is God and can ordain a man's time to die.

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA FOR STNADING UP WHAT SADDAM HUSSEIN STOOD FOR! I HOPE HIS LAGACY LIVES ON!

This was done in an Iraqi court, if people are implying that Americans gave the verdict. The judge was also an Iraqi citizen.

Yes...and there was NO American influence in the trial!?!

How many times were judges changed?

Why was there no international supervision?

This is just one of Stalin's showtrials.

Oh sorry, are we hating on the US? I though we just didn't like the death penalty.

We the US is still barbaric enough to allow capital punishment. However, in both my states, it has been permenantly and temporarily restricted.

Hooray for Federalism.

Hell, until four years ago Texas was executing the mentally retarded.

Originally posted by Alliance
We the US is still barbaric enough to allow capital punishment. However, in both my states, it has been permenantly and temporarily restricted.

Hooray for Federalism.

Hell, until four years ago Texas was executing the mentally retarded.

Well, better mentally retarded than real humans, right? ....right?

Yeah. How else are we going to cleanse society? Hitler had it right man.

Originally posted by Alliance
Yeah. How else are we going to cleanse society? Hitler had it right man.

Hitler had the right idea. He was just an underachiever. Kill them all. Kill them all Bill Hicks says.