TWO weeks ago, the Iraqi criminal court sentenced former President Saddam Hussein to death by hanging. The sentence was for a crime against humanity: the killing of 148 Shiites at Dujail. The case will now go to the appeals court, which will announce its result in January. The death sentence against Saddam is scheduled to be carried out in the middle of February.

Some agree with the death sentence given to Iraqs president for 30 years, others do n