He was hung for killing 148 men and boys in Dujail in 1982. They have discoverd 400,000 bodies in 250 unmarked, mass graves since the invasion...he got off lucky. But, of course, eternity is a long, long....long time. It is believed he killed over 2,000,000 of his own people over his 35 years in power.
FOX news went a little overboard: