<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" id="mwARM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>, the former president of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" id="mwARQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, and his co-defendants <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barzan_Ibrahim_al-Tikriti" id="mwARU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti">Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awad_Hamed_al-Bandar" id="mwARY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Awad Hamed al-Bandar">Awad Hamed al-Bandar</a>, are sentenced to death in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Saddam_Hussein" id="mwARc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Trial of Saddam Hussein">the al-Dujail trial</a> for their roles in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dujail_Massacre" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dujail Massacre">the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims</a>.