You're right --- it's been over a year since we mounted our Death Watch for Tookie. Then our Death Watch for another cretin was "ruined" when that CA judge stopped the execution after agreeing with the cretin's lawyers, that death by needle might be "cruel and unusal punishment" because a doctor would not be present.
Najeeb al-Nueimi, a member of Saddam's legal team in Doha, Qatar, said he too requested a final meeting with the deposed Iraqi leader. "His daughter in Amman was crying, she said 'Take me with you,'" al-Nueimi said late Friday. But he said their request was rejected.
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Link is before this somewhere.....