»1587200 Posted December 26, 2006 Report Posted December 26, 2006 BAGHDAD' date=' Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi High Tribunal's appellate chamber on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein's death sentence in the Dujail massacre case, Judge Munir Haddad announced. Haddad said the court's decision was the final word in the case. The toppled Iraqi dictator's execution must take place before January 27, Haddad said. Iraqi law requires a death sentence to be carried out within 30 days. n November, Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the 1982 killings of 148 people in Dujail, a mostly Shiite town north of Baghdad. Hussein's chief defense attorney, Khalil al-Dulaimi, said he had heard about the decision, but said it came from "an illegitimate and uncons!@#$%^&*utional court." "We are not surprised by this crazy ruling," al-Dulaimi said. The lawyer, speaking from Amman, Jordan, said three other members of the defense team met with Hussein on Tuesday before the decision was announced and described him as being in high spirits. Under international law, most governments have the power to stay any executions, but Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said his government would not do so in Hussein's case. Hussein and two co-defendants -- his half-brother and former intelligence chief Barzan H!@#$%^&*an, and Awad Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court -- were found guilty in the killings in Dujail after an attempt to !@#$%^&*!@#$%^&*inate the then-Iraqi leader. Hussein and others are being tried in another case -- the killings of up to 100,000 Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign against Kurdish rebels, which included the use of poison gas against Kurdish towns in northern Iraq. However, Haddad said Hussein's involvement in that case would cease with his execution.[/quote']http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/26/...main/index.html The final word eh? We'll see...
Aileron Posted December 30, 2006 Report Posted December 30, 2006 Further update: The hanging is to occur on television at Saturday 12/30/06 at 6:00 local time, Friday 12/29/06 10:00 PM EST. In english: They would be friggin hanging him on live TV in two hours and twenty minutes if not for oversensitive people who don't like seeing people hanged on live TV.
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