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Sitting on Iraq's death row is a 25-year-old woman convicted in the slayings of three relatives. She says her husband carried out the killings and fled. She confessed to being an accomplice, she says, only after being tortured in police custody.

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aceofspades1
May 9, 2007, 3:48 p.m.
sounds like Texas
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RoyHobbs
May 9, 2007, 4:11 p.m.
Tortured? Boy, gotta love that new found freedom.
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WCFIELDS
May 9, 2007, 4:54 p.m.
No government should be entrusted with the Death Penalty.
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bubba2
May 9, 2007, 5:32 p.m.
Let's see ... we are "bringing democracy" to Iraq, and our troops are over there fighting to give Iraq "democracy".
So, what we are fighting for is a government that tortures its suspects into giving confessions.
Must be a new 'definition' of "democracy" that I am not aware of ... this is what our troops are dying for and what millions of innocent Iraqis are suffering and dying for?
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not2needy
May 9, 2007, 5:38 p.m.
They won't ever hold a man responsible if they have a woman they can blame. They protect the men and sacrifice the women.
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xlegultx
May 9, 2007, 6:55 p.m.
And America is still supporting Iraq why?
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raycolerick
May 9, 2007, 10:12 p.m.
Most likely reason to support the troops in Iraq: It's better to support them than to damn them like the Vietnam troops. I was really hoping that the surge would bring about a withdrawl of ALL the U.S. troops. I'd like to think that the gov't would listen to the military on what they need.
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buddyb
May 9, 2007, 10:27 p.m.
Our crappy governemnt giving birth to another crappy goverment. I guess this is what the neocons refer to as "nation building".
F**cking B**h!
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markd2007
May 10, 2007, 1:10 a.m.
I'm telling ya, they were better off with Saddam. Genocidal dictator yes, but like Josip Tito some people need an iron fist to stay in line.
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evelyna
May 10, 2007, 8:14 a.m.
She obviously found time to tweeze her eyebrows. Maybe she wants to be the new Iraqi Paris Hilton.
I do not think Iraq should be concerned with a murder. What is one more over there?
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aceofspades1
May 10, 2007, 10:15 a.m.
evelyna - you'd be great on halloween
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rob1957b
May 10, 2007, 11:04 a.m.
to djrevelky:
This is 'OUR' country (mine, buddyb yours, and all), and if buddyb wishes to rail against our 'crappy government' that is his right. Back off, Jack.
If you don't like that then why don't YOU leave 'OUR' country.
Rob.
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joeblowe
May 10, 2007, 11:46 a.m.
Boy, you've got to hand it to those Muslims. They really know how to get criminals to confess. Look at all the time, money, and court costs that are saved. Guilty until proven innocent, they always say. /end sarcasm
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Teagen
May 10, 2007, 11:58 a.m.
What's the problem? This is Islamic Law at it's finest. Muslims treat their pets better then their women. Where's the husband? Nothing has been mentioned about him other than he ran away. Like a cowardly Islamic terrorist.
Bet seriously, this is the way of most Islamic based nations. Women are not treated as second class citizens. They are treated as aliens to the planet. I pray for her freedom but I wouldn't hold out hope.
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CrazyRay
May 10, 2007, 12:24 p.m.
"According to Amnesty International, such claims are not uncommon in Iraq, which has the fourth-highest execution rate in the world."
So why is this news then? Oh yeah, because we have to post everything negative about Iraq...
...and who says this woman is innocent because she says she is after confessing? Would you admit to a crime if you were being beaten?
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Thinkingisgood
May 10, 2007, 8:39 p.m.
This really isn't about women's rights per se, it's about human rights in the broadest sense. This is about a government the United States, as an occupying power, put in place. It demonstrates that in at least one way important to the human rights advocates of the world that what America has set in place and supports is no better than what we displaced. Is this worth 3,000 American lives and greivous harm to our capacity for self-defense. H*** NO!
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evelyna
May 10, 2007, 10:19 p.m.
It sounds the same as it is here, if you are with a man you are involved in the crime.. So what is the problem. Call Bush to pardon her if you must! I do not see any blonde Iraqi's. That is their loss not mine!
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quackpot
May 11, 2007, 6:32 p.m.
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