The government’s new e-petition site went live yesterday and provided the mechanism for two petitions, one for restoring the death penalty and the other opposed to doing so. At the time of writing, the pro-hanging petition put down by Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes) has won over 7,000 14,000 signatures, but the anti-hanging petition put […]
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Tariq Aziz Should Not Hang
Oct 28th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.The decision by Iraq’s high tribunal to pass a death sentence on Tariq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, over “the persecution of Islamic parties”, has the feel of retribution about it. After all, this sentence follows from the fifteen year sentence meted out to Aziz last year for his part in the killings […]
