Saddam may face death penalty

[AlGore-08.com]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3573972&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

LONDON - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein could face the death penalty if he is convicted of war crimes, says the head of the Iraqi tribunal that will try him.

Salem Chalabi told the BBC's Breakfast with Frost programme that Saddam could be executed if Iraq's interim Government lifts a suspension on the death penalty after assuming power next week.

The United States administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, has suspended the death penalty.

"The statute of the tribunal says that for anybody convicted of the ... crime of murder or rape, they get what Iraqi law prescribes," Chalabi said.

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