Saddam Sentenced to Hang

Brian Zick

John Ward Anderson and Ellen Knickmeyer for WaPo report: BAGHDAD, Nov. 5 -- Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was found guilty by a special tribunal Sunday of crimes against humanity for the torture and execution of more than 100 people from a small town north of Baghdad 24 years ago. He was sentenced to death by hanging.

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