An Iraqi appeals panel has confirmed the death sentence on Taha Yassin Ramadan, who served as vice-president to executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, officials said today. Ramadan was sentenced to death on February 12 for crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal which is trying former regime officials.His sentence was automatically reviewed by the appeals panel which today confirmed the execution by hanging. “Yesterday, all the members of the appeals court ratified the death sentence on Taha Yassin Ramadan,” Judge Munir Haddad of the appeals panel told a press conference. “He can be hanged at any moment but the official period is that the sentence be carried out within 30 days of it being confirmed by the appeals court.”
