Tariq Aziz Handed Death Penalty

Something of a holdover dinosaur from another world. Aziz was the "friendly" face of the Saddam regimes as well as the token christian in his upper echelon. Now his time has come:

BAGHDAD (AP) — Saddam Hussein's foreign minister Tariq Aziz was sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for persecuting members of Shiite religious parties under the former regime.

Iraq's high criminal court spokesman Mohammed Abdul Sahib did not say when Aziz, 74, would be put to death. The death sentence was for a conviction on charges of taking part in a Saddam-led campaign that hunted and executed members of the Shiite Dawa Party, of which current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is a member.

There was talk that Azizi would get a life sentence (he already is serving 15 years for another crime), apparently that is not gonna happen. The following clip is about the roots of the 15 year sentence: