Abstract
EDITOR,—Reports in the BMJ have drawn attention to a series of recent decrees of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council introducing amputation of the right hand as judicial punishment for theft, with amputation of the left foot for a second offence.1 2 Amputation of one ear is decreed as punishment for evasion of the draft, military desertion, or harbouring deserters. Amputation of the other pinna is the penalty for a second offence, and the death penalty is decreed for a third. In addition, an X is branded on to the forehead. It seems that these sentences …
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