“The mass executions in Iraq are a terrible example of the arbitrariness of the cruel punishment,” Aurelie Placais, the Director of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, tells TIME.

Iraq reinstated capital punishment for people guilty of murder, endangering national security and distributing drugs, the government announced Sunday, saying the death penalty was necessary to ...

Iraq's Penal Code provides for a wide range ... The wide array of offenses subject to capital punishment under Iraqi legislation and Iraqi government practiceÑboth its frequent applications ...

That’s how recent executions have proceeded in Iraq–at least when the equipment works. Since the Iraqi government reintroduced capital punishment in 2004, several executions have been beset by ...

UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said late last year that given such gaps in Iraq's legal system, implementing capital punishment "may amount to an arbitrary deprivation of life by ...

Our political analysts tackle President Bush's latest speech on Iraq, new capital punishment laws, fallout from Karl Rove's resignation, and the CIA's internal investigation. Joining Farai Chideya ...

The Iraqi government said 13 insurgents were hanged Thursday in the first executions of militants since capital punishment was reinstated in Iraq after the end of the U.S. occupation. The Cabinet ...

Iraq today reinstated its suspended capital punishment law for people guilty of murder, endangering national security and distributing drugs, the government announced. Iraq today reinstated its ...

Capital punishment is legal in Iraq (as it is in the U.S., regrettably), and Iraqi authorities are unlikely to be swayed by death penalty abolitionists in this of all cases. The prospect of ...

Sweden, which has abolished capital punishment, is firmly opposed to its ... involved in the shooting of another Swedish national in Iraq in January. For more news like this visit TOI.

The execution of Saddam Hussein has provoked mixed reactions around the world and focused attention on varying attitudes towards capital punishment. The EU opposed the death penalty throughout ...

Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia together accounted ... which is wrestling with a dilemma over capital punishment. Despite the uptick, the report offers a glimmer of hope: the number of countries ...