Executions rife in Iraq, says human rights group
Hands off Cain, an Italian anti-death penalty group, released a 20-page dossier detailing abuses in Iraq in 2002, focusing in particular on death sentences and detainments.
Last year 214 executions took place, the group said, and at least 200,000 people were jailed in Iraq. The death penalty has been legal in Iraq since 1921 a year after the nation's founding but its usage spiked after 1968, when the Ba'ath Party took over, and again following Saddam's rise to power in 1979, Hands Off Cain said.
