Saddam Hussein defense lawyer Curtis Doebbler, one of the two Americans on Hussein's Dujail trial team, has condemned the ousted Iraqi president's execution in a statement sent to JURIST only minutes after his client was hanged in...

Iraqi television is reporting that Saddam Hussein has been executed. The hanging, reported by US-operated al-Hurra TV as having taken place around 6 AM Saturday local time (10 PM Friday ET), fulfills the death sentence handed...

A US federal judge has rejected an eleventh-hour bid by lawyers for Saddam Hussein seeking a direct stay of execution. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a 6-page ruling late Friday evening following a telephone conference with lawyers...

Iraqi officials have said that final preparations are underway for the execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein before 6 AM local Baghdad time (10 PM Friday ET). Observers eligible to witness the execution have been told...

A three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected an amicus brief filed by seven retired judges who argued that portions of the new Military Commissions Act [JURIST news...

An Iraqi judge on the appeals bench of the Iraqi High Tribunal that earlier this week rejected Saddam Hussein's appeal of his November death sentence for crimes...

State-run television in Iran has reported that Iranian Minister of Justice Jamal Karimi-Rad has died in a car accident . While details have been sparse, it is believed that Karimi-Rad’s son was driving...

The top Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Friday that US authorities have asked the defense team to pick up Hussein's personal belongings in preparation for a reportedly-imminent transfer of the ousted Iraqi...

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein have reached across the Atlantic in last-ditch legal bids to stop US authorities from handing their client over to Iraqi officials for expected execution . On Wednesday, UK-based Saddam defense lawyer Giovanni di Stefano...

The State of California has decided not to appeal a December 21st decision of the California 1st District Court of Appeal restoring voting rights to approximately 100,000 inmates serving a year or...