BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death has condemned the manner in which the notorious dictator was executed. Saddam Hussein was hanged after being found guilty for his role in the killing of 148 people in Dujail. "It was uncivilized and backward," said Chief Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman, who spoke to reporters on Tuesday as they awaited the start of the latest trial of ex-regime members. Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, was hanged for his role in the killings of 148 people in Dujail, a mostly Shiite town north of Baghdad, after a 1982 attempt to assassinate the then-Iraqi leader.
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Judge who sentenced Hussein to death condemns manner of execution
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Chief Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman calls hanging 'uncivilized and backward'
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Rahman decries public nature of execution during a religious holiday
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