Cambridge (UK), Sept. 25 : Nearly two years after an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, Western lawyers who helped guide the court, have contended that Hussein was railroaded to the gallows by vengeful officials in Iraq’s new government.
According to The Telegraph, these lawyers say Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki forced the resignation of one of five judges in the trial only days before the court sentenced Hussein.
The purpose, the lawyers say, was to avert the possibility that judges who were wavering would spare Hussein the death penalty and sentence him to life imprisonment instead.