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Saddam death would worsen Iraq violence: lawyer
Executing Saddam Hussein would fuel more sectarian violence in Iraq, a U.S. lawyer for the deposed Iraqi leader said on Tuesday. "That execution would inflame a country that's already incinerating," former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said. "I hope the American people can realize that if there is ever a time to call for an end to executions, it is in this case."

Saddam's trial for crimes against humanity has been a miscarriage of justice, depriving a death sentence of legitimacy, Clark said. He added that the trial has been unduly influenced by the United States, which has attracted international criticism for its own high rate of executions. Clark, a communist and founder of International ANSWER veteran defender of unpopular high-profile cases, spoke at a news conference to highlight his call for better protection of Saddam's lawyers, three of whom have been killed since the Iraqi trial started in October. The third was killed on Wednesday. Prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for Saddam in the case, which involves a 1982 crackdown on Shi'ites in which hundreds were killed and tortured.
Posted by: Fred 2006-06-28
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