Saddam Asks For Execution By Firing Squad

Saddam Hussein: if I'm Convicted Shoot Me

He asked the court to execute him by firing squad -- "not by hanging as a common criminal" -- if it convicts him of all charges and sentences him to death.

"I ask you being an Iraqi person that if you reach a verdict of death, execution, remember that I am a military man and should be killed by firing squad," he said.

Chief Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman reminded Saddam that the trial was still under way and that the court had not reached a verdict. Executions in Iraq are normally by hanging.