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| Iraq to execute 53 people, including 5 foreigners |
| 2011-10-21 |
| [Emirates 24/7] Iraq's presidency approved on Thursday the executions of 53 people, including five foreigners, the head of the presidency council office said. "There are 53 people who have been approved for execution -- among them are five foreigners," Nassir al-Ani told AFP. He provided no further details of who the people were who would be executed, or the nationalities of the foreign prisoners. Ani heads the office of the presidency council, comprised of President Jalal Talabani and his two deputies Tareq al-Hashemi and Khudayr al-Khuzaie, which must approve all death sentences in Iraq. Last month, Abdelsattar Birakdar, the front man of the Higher Judicial Council, said 338 death sentences had been issued so far this year, and three executions had been carried out. Iraq's Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim said in December 2010 that Iraq has executed 257 people, including six women, since 2005. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is an ardent supporter of capital punishment, but President Jalal Talabani is a staunch opponent. One man's rights are another man's existential threat. watchdog, noted in a September 2009 that Iraq was one of only 46 countries that voted against a December 2008 UN resolution in favour of a moratorium on the use of capital punishment. The resolution was approved by 106 states. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 Ah, The Burg, where math majors roam free... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-10-21 18:09 |
| #12 Soon to approach infinity, rotating around the end of the y-axis. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-10-21 17:02 |
| #11 you're going off on a tangent there Maybe, I but I have not quite reached the limit. And one can secant you my point? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-10-21 16:42 |
| #10 Consider a sequence of irrational numbers tending to zero, BP. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-10-21 15:02 |
| #9 SteveS you're going off on a tangent there. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-10-21 12:18 |
| #8 Calculus 101 Which teaches us that for every depth, there is one still lower. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-10-21 12:11 |
| #7 Why am I picturing that scene in Blazing Saddles outside of Lepetomaine's office with the hunch-backed executioner getting ready to hang a rider and his horse, simultaneously? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-10-21 10:34 |
| #6 Glenmore, I hear you. I personally would reserve the death penalty for one crime only -- multiple murder (terrorists, serial killers and mass murderers). For those folks there is no question of guilt and no chance of earthly redemption. Everyone else? No execution, and (perhaps) an Office of Review that could, impartially, check out whether someone was jugged improperly years before. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-10-21 09:20 |
| #5 They're doing more due diligence and contemplation than any other Arab country I can think of... Calculus 101 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-10-21 08:12 |
| #4 Doc, I don't doubt they're the best of the Arab countries, but I'm not even real thrilled with OUR execution of executions. Not against them per se, but like prosecution in general, it gets to be a 'game' (just released a convicted rapist here after 30 years when exonerating DNA evidence was admitted and considered.) And the temptation everywhere is to use prosecution in general and execution in particular as a tool of politics. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-10-21 07:53 |
| #3 They're doing more due diligence and contemplation than any other Arab country I can think of... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-10-21 07:45 |
| #2 Glenmore, don't be childish---it's an Arab country. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-10-21 06:48 |
| #1 I have no doubt there are more than enough people deserving of the sentence, but is the justice system administering it to appropriate people - and will it continue to? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-10-21 06:15 |