This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Saddam still had planned trials for the future to convict him, and now he can’t be there to hear the charges against him because he’s dead… They killed him after the very first trial. He can’t defend himself for these future charges, and he cannot be punished for these future charges. Maybe they should have thought twice about killing Saddam, for at the very least, they were not done with him yet:

Hussein trial to resume with ‘vacant’ chair