GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations called on Iraq on Friday to halt all executions after 42 people were hanged this week in what it said were most probably illegal mass executions ordered by Baghdad's "seriously flawed" justice system.
They were executed for mass killings and other offences on Wednesday and Thursday - which was World Day against the Death Penalty.
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