Iraq’s Abadi orders immediate executions of ISIS militants on death row
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday ordered the immediate execution of all convicted ISIS militants on death row, in a swift retaliation for the terrorist group execution of eight captives. Abadi ordered “the immediate punishment of terrorists condemned to death whose sentences have passed the decisive stage”, his office said, referring to convicts whose appeals have been exhausted. More than 300 people, including around 100 foreign women, have been condemned to death in Iraq and hundreds of others to life imprisonment for membership of ISIS, a judicial source said in April. Most of the convicted women are Turkish or from former Soviet republics, while a Russian man and a Belgian national are also on death row. Abadi vowed on Thursday to avenge the deaths of the eight ISIS captives, a day after their bodies were found along a highway north of Baghdad. “Our security and military forces will take forceful revenge against these terrorist cells,” he told senior mil