Saddam was sentenced to death on November 5 for his involvement in the Dujail massacres of 1982, when 148 Shiite Muslims were killed for attempting to assassinate him.
The sentence was welcomed by the Shias, while the Sunnis, particularly in Tikrit, mourned.
Internationally, the conduct of the trial came under much criticism, even by the Human Rights Watch. The Iraqi government was accused of interfering in the proceedings.
Image: Iraqi men celebrate the guilty verdict against former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein November 5, 2006 in the Shiite Sadr city neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. In his hometown of Tikrit, however, people protest the sentence.
Photograph: Wathiq Khuzaie and Dia Hamid/AFP/Getty Images
Also see: The Victor in Baghdad 
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