"Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could be executed if he is convicted of ordering the killing of protesters", Egypt's justice minister says. "One of the charges he is facing is complicity in the killing of martyrs and issuing the orders for premeditated the killing of those people," said Justice Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz al-Juindy. "This is a charge with a harsh punishment -- the death penalty."
"A judge may have mercy if there is a reason for that, but I don't think in this case there is any argument for clemency whatsoever," the minister added, calling it "a horrible crime, to kill 800 citizens who were asking for their rights and hoping to topple a corrupt regime that caused the ruin of Egypt."
Mubarak resigned in the face of popular protests in February after more than 30 years in power. which probably led him to get angry and kill them.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/04/egypt.mubarak.justice/index.html
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