Iraq's High Tribunal on Sunday found Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang for the 1982 killing of 148 Shiites in the city of Dujail. The visibly shaken former leader shouted "God is great!"
Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of the former Revolutionary Court, were sentenced to join Saddam on the gallows for the Dujail killings after an unsuccessful assassination attempt during a Saddam visit to the city 35 miles north of Baghdad.
The death sentences automatically go to a nine-judge appeals panel which has unlimited time to review the case. If the verdicts and sentences are upheld, the executions must be carried out within 30 days.
I am totally glad he got the death penalty, he really deserves it.
I totally agree that Saddam deserves death. I actually can't see how anyone could sentence him any other way. He is a horrid man who finally got what he deserves. Just reading about all the devestation he caused can make me choke up, how sad it must have been for those who lived under his rule. It is times like this that I am proud to be an american.