Iraq has sentenced forty members of Islamic State (ISIS) in its captivity to death on Thursday. They were charged with mass-murdering hundreds of Iraqi cadets at Camp Speicher in Tikrit back in June 2014.

According to Reuters many of these suspects were arrested by Iraqi authorities after they pushed ISIS from Tikrit in early 2015. Previously 24 were convicted and executed last year. There are a total of 600 individuals suspected of having a hand in that atrocity. Amnesty International has condemned this trial alleging that it was "fundamentally flawed" and constituted "a reckless disregard for justice and human life."

The Speicher massacre ranks among the most bloody and notorious of the crimes against humanity ISIS has carried out to date.

On that occasion ISIS lined up 1,700 the mostly Shiite members of the Iraqi military and systematically murdered them. Burying many in mass graves and dumping others in the Tigris River.

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