By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Iraq should stop its widespread use of the Death penalty, which is unjust, flawed and only fuels the violence it purports to deter, the United Nations said in a report on Sunday. Sixty people were hanged in Iraq by the end of August this year, and although that is fewer than the 177 who were executed in 2013, 1,724 people remained on Death row. Iraq tends to carry out the sentence in batches because President Jalal Talabani opposes the Death penalty so a vice president orders executions when he is out of the country, said the report, published jointly by the ...
10-19-2014, 10:51 PM
Death penalty fuels violence in Iraq, says U.N. report
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Iraq should stop its widespread use of the Death penalty, which is unjust, flawed and only fuels the violence it purports to deter, the United Nations said in a report on Sunday. Sixty people were hanged in Iraq by the end of August this year, and although that is fewer than the 177 who were executed in 2013, 1,724 people remained on Death row. Iraq tends to carry out the sentence in batches because President Jalal Talabani opposes the Death penalty so a vice president orders executions when he is out of the country, said the report, published jointly by the ...
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