عقوبة الإعدام في التشريع العراقي

Abstract EN

Iraq was home to the oldest of the legislation since a nearly year-Alfi BC Hammurabi one of the oldest develop legal systems in the history of ancient civilizations, the law contains 282 articles, including Article 50 of the crimes and their penalties, and then become a criminal legislation after the Islamic conquest applied in the country and continued through the application The duration of the rule of the Ottoman Empire in 1534 until the issuance of the Ottoman Penal Code in 1858.

With the end of Ottoman rule and the beginning of British occupation of Iraq at the end of World War I.

The general commander of British forces Baghdadi Penal Code which came into force at the beginning of 19191 and remained applied to the domestic penal law No.

111 in 1966 which came into force on December 16,1966.

The majority of the provisions of the law derived from the project in 1966 to the Egyptian penal code and its predecessors from the bills.

After the fall of the former regime, the director of the authority of the coalition three orders on the Penal Code, has suspended the death penalty, and suspended the provisions of Articles 200 and 221, 222, 225, with some other amendments, and then solving the coalition authority to the interim Iraqi government issued Order No.

3 years In 2004 and to return the death penalty for certain offences against state security and internal risk-General and Acts against the Safety of Transport and Communications and crimes of kidnapping and murder.