Iraqi interim President Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar confirmed...

Iraqi interim President Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar confirmed the country would soon reinstate the death penalty, as the European Union voiced its strong opposition to the sentence. Iraq's interim government would first announce a long-awaited amnesty to insurgents who had fought US-led forces since the 2003 invasion but were ready to lay down their arms, Yawar said. This move would be followed "by a law on the death penalty," the president told reporters in Baghdad.
"We are looking at this carefully, the death sentence will only be applied the way it is applied in many of the world's most advanced societies," Yawar told reporters after meeting with Defence Minister Hazem Shaalan and National Guard Brigadier General Muther al-Rashedi.
"This is nothing like the previous regime that had laid down 114 articles in the law carrying the death penalty."