Baghdad: The Iraqi High Tribunal on Monday sentenced former Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan to death by hanging in the Dujail case.
The Court ruled on Sunday that Saddam Hussein's former vice-president should follow him to the gallows, despite appeals from UN officials and international human rights groups for his life to be spared.
"God knows I didn't do anything wrong," Taha Yassin Ramadan had said shortly before judge Ali al-Kahachi sentenced him to death by hanging for his role in the killing of 148 Shi'ite men from the town of Dujail in the 1980s.
Ramadan originally had been sentenced to life in prison in the case but the tribunal's appeals chamber said the original sentence was too lenient and ordered the court to resentence him. In 1982, 148 men and boys were killed in Dujail, Iraq, after an assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein.
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