Viewers Corner News was informed that the Iraqi court has sentenced forty captured members of ISIS to death. According to report, these forty Islamic state jihadist members were found guilty on terrorism charges by the Baghdad criminal court (for killing hundreds of soldiers after capturing them when they fled from an ex-U.S. army base outside the northern city of Tikrit in 2014). Seven defendants were acquitted and freed for lack of evidence and in all, there are more than 600 suspects. In July 2015, twenty-four among the arrested suspects were convicted and sentenced to death. Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, the spokesman for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council said that all death sentences in the country were subject to review by the court of appeals, Iraqi law provides for an automatic appeal for all death-sentence and life-imprisonment cases even if the defendants do not lodge an appeal themselves.
Source: Viewers Corner News.