Three local Baath Party officials — Abdullah Kadhim Ruweid, his son Mizher Abdullah Ruweid and Ali Dayeh Ali — were sentenced to 15 years of prison for willful murder and seven years for torture, although the sentences will run concurrently. Another defendant and minor Baath party official, Mohammed Azawi Ali, was acquitted for insufficient evidence. Prosecutors had argued for lesser sentences for those officials.

Several of the defendants, including Mr. Hussein, were found not guilty for lack of evidence on counts of enforced disappearances.

Like the verdicts and sentence against Mr. Hussein, the verdicts and sentences against Mr. Tikriti, Mr. Bandar and Mr. Ramadan will all come under review by the nine-judge appellate chamber of the trial court. There is no time limit for the appeal court’s review, but Iraqi and American officials who work with the court said that the earliest realistic date for Mr. Hussein’s execution, assuming it stood up to review, would be next spring.

The court has been under growing political pressure from Mr. Maliki and other Shiite officials, who believe an execution sooner rather than later would help to suppress elements of the insurgency that have held out for a return of Mr. Hussein to power.

Mr. Hussein, along with six other defendants, is also being tried in a separate case in which they face charges of killing at least 50,000 people in the so-called Anfal military campaign in 1987 and 1988 in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Prosecutors are preparing numerous other cases against Mr. Hussein, and the tribunal may decide to try him on some or all of the additional charges if it wants to create a full record of the former leader’s crimes.

But Jaafar al-Mousawi, chief prosecutor in the Dujail case, noted at a briefing after today’s verdict that nothing in Iraqi law prevents the execution of a defendant in an ongoing trial. He said that if Mr. Hussein was executed before the end of the Anfal trial, which is expected next summer, it would be a simple procedural matter to strike his name from the list of defendants.

Today’s court session unfolded in about 50 minutes, with the defendants brought into the courtroom one at a time to listen to their verdicts.