UN Compares Iraq Death Penalty Use To Slaughter
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| Iraq's Prime Minister |
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights officials is condemning Iraq's widespread use of the death penalty, comparing it to a slaughterhouse.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says Iraq's justice system is "too seriously flawed to warrant even a limited application of the death penalty," let alone its execution of 33 people in the past month or its plans to put another 150 people to death.
Pillay said in a statement Friday that "executing people in batches like this is obscene. It is like processing animals in a slaughterhouse."
Her office says Iraq executed 129 people in 2012.
At a press briefing her spokesman, Rupert Colville, derided the executions as a "conveyor belt of executions" and said 1,400 people are believed to be on death row in Iraq.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says Iraq's justice system is "too seriously flawed to warrant even a limited application of the death penalty," let alone its execution of 33 people in the past month or its plans to put another 150 people to death.
Pillay said in a statement Friday that "executing people in batches like this is obscene. It is like processing animals in a slaughterhouse."
Her office says Iraq executed 129 people in 2012.
At a press briefing her spokesman, Rupert Colville, derided the executions as a "conveyor belt of executions" and said 1,400 people are believed to be on death row in Iraq.
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