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Iraq announces reinstatement of death penalty

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Baghdad, Aug 8, Kyodo/OANA/IRNA -- Iraq`s interim government announced
Sunday the reinstatement of capital punishment for a range of crimes 
including murder and drug offenses. 
The death penalty, which had been suspended during the US 
occupation, will go into effect once it had been published in a 
government gazette, officials told a news conference. 
The death penalty under the new law is more restrictive than that 
it had been during the rule of Saddam Hussein, according to the 
officials. 
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