Posted on 01/18/2007 12:51:44 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Iraqi court to sentence Saddam's deputy to death next week
Press Trust of India
Baghdad, January 17, 2007
Another deputy of former leader Saddam Hussein will be given the death penalty later this month after the appeals court ruled that his previous sentence of life in prison was too lenient, a spokesman has said.
Raid Juhi, a spokesman for the Iraqi High Tribunal, said a session will be held on January 25 in which a judge will read the new verdict against former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan.
On November 5, Ramadan was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison. A month later, the appeals court said the sentence was too lenient, and returned his case to the High Tribunal, demanding he be sentenced to death. The court agreed to turn it to a death sentence.
The same day Ramadan was convicted, the court sentenced Saddam, his half brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, to death. Three other defendants were sentenced to 15 years in jail while one was acquitted.
Saddam was hanged on December 30, while Ibrahim and al-Bandar were executed Monday, provoking anger among their fellow Sunnis, who are the main driving force of the insurgency that began after the US-led invasion that ousted Saddam in 2003.
If the death sentence is upheld on appeal, Ramadan will have to be executed within 30 days of that decision, in accordance with Iraqi law.
They sure taint messing around with these butchers.
ping Show mama that one of the men in here deck of cards is going to hang.
same trial, as Saddam's?
or just sentenced on same day?
With practice the hangings will soon be all nice and decorous.
Does anyone know if any of these trash issue an apology to their victim's families prior to their execution. I was thinking that its such a nice touch when, on the rare occasion of a much delayed US execution, the creep almost invariably apologizes to the family of the victim. Kinda, sorta, maybe makes up for all of the innocent's deaths and the agony it has caused to the family NOT.
Judge Roy Bean would be right pleased.
"Time will pass and seasons will come and go; Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale. Then will come sultry Summer, with her shimmerin' heat-waves on the baked horizon; and Fall, with her yeller harvest-moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun; and finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. But you won't be here to see any of 'em, Carlos Robles; not by a dam' sight, because it's the order of this court that you be took to the nearest tree and hanged by the neck till you're dead, dead, dead, you olive colored son-of-a-billy-goat!"
Until then, I'd advise Ramadan to strengthen his neck and watch his weight.
Hmmmmm.... so we now have international precedent for appealing a non deathpenalty state life sentence to demand a death sentence.
How do you like them apples Ruthie?
Ruthie !! wake up!!! this is important!!
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