...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s and life imprisonment against ten 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) suspects arrested in Nineveh province, the interior ministry said, the latest in a spate of executions by Baghdad against the jihadists.
"The judicial authorities issued severe sentences (execution and life imprisonment) against ten gunnies arrested by our agency in Nineveh province. This came after investigations and confronting them with solid evidence, which they confessed to their affiliation with terrorist ISIS gangs," said a statement by the interior ministry’s Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency.
The agency said that the suspects were involved in "many terrorist attacks" during the rise of ISIS in 2014, "including carrying out killings of security forces members and innocent civilians."
Thousands of people have been detained across Iraq since 2014 for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, and hundreds have been executed. Human rights monitors have criticized the trials, saying they depend on confessions obtained through torture, they do not investigate specific charges such as genocide, and they exclude the victims, thereby denying them justice.
Iraq has also routinely been criticized for poor prison conditions and harsh treatment of detainees and suspects.
More than 8,000 are purportedly on death row in Iraq, and authorities have been repeatedly condemned for carrying out hasty trials.