“We want a restricted death penalty, for a limited time...

"We want a restricted death penalty, for a limited time, until there are elections and Iraqis can decide for themselves,” Iraq’s interim prime minister Iyad Allawi told Spanish daily El Pais on July 7 in an interview. He said the interim government had not yet made a decision on how the death penalty, suspended during the US-led occupation, should be implemented.
“When Saddam was in power, people were condemned to death just for speaking ill of him. We want to abolish those extremes and limit capital punishment to very concrete cases and for a limited time. We are thinking, for example, about (what to do) in the case of murder,” he told the newspaper. He said the decision was unrelated to the trial of Saddam — accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide — but was meant to deal with “indiscriminate murdering by terrorists”.