Courtroom footage from 2006 captures the moment Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death, revealing his defiant and unyielding demeanor. As the judge announced the verdict—death by hanging for crimes ...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 5 -- A divided and violence-ridden Iraq broke into starkly disparate displays of emotion on Sunday after judges in Baghdad condemned former president Saddam Hussein to hang for crimes ...

WASHINGTON — No one doubts Saddam Hussein is guilty of gruesome crimes, but Catholic scholars are mixed about whether his death sentence is justified by Church teaching. Cardinal Renato Martino, ...

BAGHDAD, June 19 -- The chief prosecutor in the trial of Saddam Hussein rested his case Monday with a dispassionate recounting of the deaths of 148 people from an Iraqi village, then a call for the ...

Saddam Hussein's death sentence was celebrated by some as justice deserved or even divine, but denounced by others as a political ploy before critical U.S. midterm congressional elections. Worldwide, ...

Jihadists have reportedly captured and killed the judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death as the US confronts the threat of civil war in the country. Al-Mesyroon reports that ...

BAGHDAD — The transitional Iraqi government executed three convicted murderers Thursday morning in the first application of the death penalty since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Bayan Ahmed ...

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants are sentenced to death for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder. The... Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death JOHN YDSTIE, host ...

(Reuters) - Following are reactions to the death sentence a U.S.-backed Iraqi court imposed on Saddam Hussein on Sunday for crimes against humanity. "Obviously we deplore the verdict of the death ...

(CNN) Saddam Hussein was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for his role in a brutal crackdown nearly 25 years ago in Dujail -- the once obscure Iraqi town that is now a symbol of his regime's ...