BBC: Saddam deputy loses final appeal

[Eugene]

Last Updated: Thursday, 15 March 2007, 10:09 GMT

Saddam deputy loses final appeal

Former Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan has lost his appeal
against a death sentence for killing Shia Muslims in the 1980s.

Ramadan was sentenced to hang after an appeal by the Iraqi High
Tribunal, which previously jailed him for life.

He was tried alongside former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein over the
killing of 148 Shias in the village of Dujail.

Under Iraqi law he must follow Saddam Hussein to the gallows within
30 days of the appeals process being exhausted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6453345.stm

[mitchleary]

1. That was fast

democracy huh? Scooter can make his appeals last for year. Good thing Iraq is as free as here. Boy, when the BFEE wants you dead, you do not have long.

[ck4829]

2. So, how is this execution going to be botched?

Will it be secretly videotaped, will he be accidentally decapitated, or will something else happen?

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Cut in half by a tractor on the way to the gallows?

Chained to the floor in the gallows room, and given a saw?

Impaled by a sharpened leg of the chair in his former office?

Legs cut off by a train as he is forced to return a pair of pants, thereby ruining the very pants he was returning? (Thanks Seinfeld)

It's like fucking Final Destination 4 out there. Rest assured that it will be botched.

[majorjohn]

3. Tyrants should face punishment n/t

[Eugene]

5. Reuters: Former Iraqi VP Ramadan to hang Tuesday-lawyers

Former Iraqi VP Ramadan to hang Tuesday-lawyers
19 Mar 2007 17:44:14 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, March 19 (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's former vice president
Taha Yassin Ramadan will hang for crimes against humanity on Tuesday,
according to legal sources who said his lawyers had been summoned on
Monday evening.

Badia Aref, a lawyer who represents former deputy prime minsiter Tareq
Aziz who also faces charges of crimes against humanity, told Reuters
the family of Ramadan had telephoned him to ask him to appeal to the
president to stop the execution.

Another legal source told Reuters the execution was set for Tuesday at
dawn and that the family were making a last minute appeal to President
Jalal Talabani to stop it.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19633775.htm

Original story: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR962930.htm">FORMER IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT TAHA YASSIN RAMADAN TO BE HANGED ON TUESDAY - LEGAL SOURCES - Reuters AlertNet

[meldroc]

6. Whoopee! Another lynching!

Doesn't it just make you pine for the days of Jim Crow?

(do I have to use the :sarcasm: smiley?)