[lbo-talk] Death Penalty Priorities in Iraq

[Kevin Robert Dean]

"Under Saddam Hussein, there were some 120 crimes punishable by death but we are going to narrow it down to those who, for instance, were responsible for mass graves or plundering the country's oil wealth," the minister [Franks] said. 

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