The top UN diplomat said he could not support bringing...

The top UN diplomat said he could not support bringing captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before a tribunal that might sentence him to death.
"The U.N. does not support death penalty. In all the courts we have set up (UN officials) have not included death penalty," Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a brief encounter with reporters at the United Nations.
"And so as secretary-general and the U.N. as an organization are not going to turn around and support a death penalty," Annan said.
Courts dealing with war crimes that have been set up by the United Nations include the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia formed in 1993. The tribunal, based in
The Hague Netherlands, has tried 43 people; former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is now on trial.
In Africa, United Nations have set up the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This court is based in Tanzania and is trying dozens of people for the 1994 genocide that killed 500,000 people. Local courts are trying other suspects in Rwanda.
The new International Criminal Court is the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal. It has been set up in 1999 and 90 countries have ratified the Rome Statute.
All these international courts exclude the death penalty.