A French lawyer on Saddam Hussein's defense team called...

A French lawyer on Saddam Hussein's defense team called the Iraqi penal code "Stone Age" legislation and said it was ill-suited to address the ousted Iraqi president's case.
"Iraqi penal procedure dates back to the Stone Age, and the 1969 penal code, taken up again by the Americans and therefore still in effect, did not foresee a situation like the one we're in now," Emmanuel Ludot told AFP.
"The death penalty existed for common law crimes, and a gap in the law still exists as to how it can be applied," he explained.
"We fear a legislation of circumstance: the goal is obviously to execute Saddam Hussein as quickly as possible. The proof is the re-establishment of the death penalty, aimed at condemning him to die."