According to this article [1] about Saddam’s execution, “Iraq’s death penalty was suspended by the U.S. military after it toppled Saddam in 2003, but the new Iraqi government reinstated it two years later, saying executions would deter criminals.”
Deter criminals? Since Iraq reinstated the death penalty in 2005, the murder rate in Baghdad has risen so high that the violence has been called a civil war. Exactly who has the death penalty deterred from committing crimes?
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