[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

Aug. 14



IRAQ:

Iraq ratifies death penalty for convicts in Speicher massacre----Last week, an 
Iraqi court sentenced 36 people to death in connection with the mass killings


Iraqi President Fuad Masum on Sunday ratified the death sentences of 36 people 
in connection with the 2014 mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi air force cadets 
by Daesh militants in northern Iraq.

In a Sunday statement, the Iraqi Presidency said Masum has "approved all the 
death sentences handed down in the crime of the Speicher Camp".

On June 12, 2014, Daesh terrorist group seized the northern city of Tikrit and 
posted a video purporting to show the mass killing of hundreds of security 
officers and military students. The officers were alleged to be affiliated to 
the Speicher base.

The Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights said the number of those murdered was 2,398.

Last week, an Iraqi court sentenced 36 people to death in connection with the 
mass killings and sent the verdicts to the Iraqi president for approval.

Iraq has plunged into a security vacuum since June 2014, when Daesh stormed the 
northern city of Mosul and declared what it calls a caliphate in Iraq and 
Syria.

(source: aa.com.tr)