Iraq's former vice president hanged for crimes against humanity

Saddam Hussein's former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan was executed on Tuesday. Ahmad Ramadan said his father would be buried in the area of the Iraqi city of Tikrit near Saddam's burial place. An Iraqi court had sentenced Ramadan to death for crimes against humanity. Ramadan was sentenced in November to life in jail for his role in the killing of 148 Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in the 1980s for which Saddam and two former aides have already been hanged. But an appeals court recommended that he receive the death penalty and referred the case back to the trial court.