...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s to three people accused of having a hand in a terrorist kaboom that targeted southeastern Iraq earlier this month, the country’s Supreme Judicial Council announced.
The sentence was handed to the alleged suspects by Dhi Qar criminal court for their "participation in detonating cycle of violences equipped with explosives in Basra's al-Jumhuriya neighborhood which led to the death and injury of a large number of civilians."
The statement added they were sentenced in accordance with Article Four of 2005 Counter-Terrorism Law which states "anyone found guilty of committing a terror offense is given the death sentence, with life imprisonment given to those who assist or hide those convicted of terrorism."
An explosion struck Basra's city centre on December 7, killing four civilians and injuring four others.
Iraq is one of the world’s top four executioners after China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century..., according to
Since the rise of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed.
At least 17 people sentenced to death for terror charges have been executed this year, reported AFP while Amnesty recorded 100 executions in Iraq in 2019, a number that dropped to 45 in the following year.
Three men were hanged in Nasiriyah city for terror offences earlier this month.
In January, an official from Iraq's presidency told AFP more than 340 execution orders "for terrorism or criminal acts" were ready to be carried out.
Another presidency official earlier this year told AFP that all the orders were signed after 2014, most of them under ex-president Fuad Massum and at a time when Islamic State (ISIS) occupied a third of the country.