Here is some background information about the trials and execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Facts Hussein was charged with premeditated murder, imprisonment and the deprivation of ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

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Television viewers in Iraq and the rest of the world might have expected a -perp walk,- with a downcast prisoner paraded before the cameras in handcuffs. Instead, they saw a carefully dressed, ...

In Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the court system was a weapon wielded by a brutal regime. Saddam drummed up charges against political rivals and intimidated judges into doing his bidding. Five years after ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s highest court rejected Saddam Hussein’s appeal Tuesday and said the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days. The sentence has already stoked Iraq’s sectarian rage, with ...

A skeptical world is waiting for what could be the most important event in the history of human rights since the Nazis were tried at Nuremberg. President Bush wants the death penalty, but Saddam ...

An Iraqi appeals court has upheld the death sentence imposed on Saddam Hussein at his first trial for war crimes. The court said Saddam must be... Court Orders Saddam to Be Hanged Within 30 Days An ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's highest court rejected Saddam Hussein's appeal Tuesday and said the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days for his role in the 1982 slayings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was back in court on Tuesday to face charges of genocide against ethnic Kurds, two days after being sentenced to hang for the killing and torture ...

An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced former president Saddam Hussein to death for crimes against humanity. The reaction to Saddam's sentencing... Court Sentences Saddam to Death by Hanging Former Iraqi ...

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and two of his most senior former aides have been sentenced to death by hanging. Saddam was on trial for crimes against humanity in the massacre of 148 Shiites after ...