[New York Times] John F. Burns and Kirk Semple - Three and a half years after American troops captured Baghdad and ended the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi court set up to judge the brutalities of his 24 years in power found him guilty on Sunday of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging. An automatic appeal of the death sentence will delay it, but some Iraqi judicial officials held out the possibility that Hussein could go to the gallows before next spring.
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