March 09, 2006

Hang em High

Today Iraq hung 13 people convicted of fighting against the new government there.

Yahoo News : The Cabinet announcement listed the name of only one of those hanged, Shukair Farid, a former policeman in the northern city of Mosul, who allegedly confessed that he had worked with Syrian foreign fighters to enlist fellow Iraqis to kill police and civilians. "The competent authorities have today carried out the death sentences of 13 terrorists," according to the statement.
It said Farid had "confessed that foreigners recruited him to spread the fear through killings and abductions." A judicial official said the death sentences were handed down in separate trials and were carried out in Baghdad. "The 13 terrorists were tried in different courts and their trials began in 2005 and ended earlier this year," an official of the Supreme Judiciary Council said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to fears of reprisal from insurgents... ...Capital punishment was suspended during the formal U.S. occupation, which ended in June 2004, and the Iraqis reinstated the penalty two months later for those found guilty of murder, endangering national security and distributing drugs, saying it was necessary to help put down the persistent insurgency.
Death sentences must be approved by the three-member presidential council headed by President Jalal Talabani, who opposes the death penalty. In the September executions and again in the Thursday hangings, Talabani refused to sign the authorization himself but gave his two vice presidents the authority.
Seems to me like the right thing to do. I wonder if they were public and if so where can we get tickets?

There were 114 crimes punishable by death during Saddam's rule these included...

You looked at me funny.

You have not one picture of my lovely face in your home.

returnring to Iraq after Leaving.

Failure to rip dogs to shreds upon being ordered to do so.


By Howie at 03:16 PM | |