Britain Won't Cooperate in Death Penalty Trial for Saddam
Britain will not participate in a trial of Saddam if the death penalty is an option:
Washington's closest Iraq war ally Britain said Monday it would play no part in any trial of Saddam Hussein that might lead to his execution. But London -- which abolished capital punishment 40 years ago -- also made clear it would reluctantly accept death for the captured ex-dictator if that was what an Iraqi tribunal ruled.
"The United Kingdom is against the death penalty," Britain's senior envoy to Iraq Jeremy Greenstock said. "So we would have no part of a tribunal or a process that had the death penalty as one of its penalties."
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