Awad Hamad al-Bandar (; aka: Awad Hamad Bandar Alsa'doon) (January 2, 1945 - January 15, 2007) was an
Iraqi chief judge under
Saddam Hussein's presidency. He was the head of the Revolutionary Court which issued death sentences against 143
Dujail residents, in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on the president on July 8, 1982 (a year before the U.S. assumed diplomatic ties with Hussein to help thwart their common enemy: Iran). At the Al-Dujail trial the
Iraqi Special Tribunal tried al-Bandar for
crimes against humanity for issuing the death sentences. On November 5, 2006, al-Bandar was sentenced to death by hanging along with co-defendants Hussein and
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who was beheaded as a result of the hanging.