"In a statement posted on its website, the Justice Ministry said authorities had executed 15 Iraqis and an Egyptian convicted of terrorism for "carrying out crimes against the Iraqi people." The other prisoner was convicted of another unspecified criminal offense.
Two of those hanged were women, it added, without saying when the executions were carried out. This year, a total of 67 people have been executed in the country.
After the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that topped longtime dictator Saddam Hussein, occupation authorities suspended Iraq's death penalty. It was reinstated in 2004 by the country's transitional government. Since then, Iraqi governments have shown increasing enthusiasm for its use as a law-and-order tool to deter insurgents."
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