According to the Washington Times, it looks a bit grim:

An Iraqi government newspaper said Saturday that toppled President Saddam Hussein was expected to be sentenced and executed within weeks.

The government-financed al-Sabah daily quoted unidentified sources close to a special court hearing Saddam's case that the verdict will be issued in the next three weeks against the former leader and his top former aides.

The sources said they expected the first death penalty against the former regime officials to be handed to Saddam after the special court convicts him on 12 charges of "crimes against humanity."

I'm not a huge fan of the death penalty, but I must admit that there is absolutely no doubt as to his guilt. When you serve as tyrant for 30 years, the documentation against you is just a bit too damning.

Although I still think the KoF plan would be more effective. In my plan, the deposed Iraqi dictator would spend the remainder of his days in a modest cell. The walls of this enclosure would be lined with television monitors. Cameras across the nation of Iraq would broadcast what is happening in the new Iraq 24/7. They would show the thriving marketplaces and children learning in schools constructed by the coalition-forces. Every session of the legislative body plus committee meeting would continuously play before the eyes of the imprisoned Saddam.

And the one image that Saddam would never see in his continuous live tour of Iraq would be his own. There is no cult of Saddam in the new Iraq, and the realization I wish for Mr. Hussein is not of condemnation but of complete and utter irrelevance.