This is great. Four years of war and thousands dead to create a democratic foothold - and this happens:

Giovanni De Stefano, a member of the men's defence team, said he heard the news from a colleague in Baghdad. "I was stunned because we were assured there would be no executions until at least the 25th of January," he told CBC Newsworld from his office in Rome. "They were killed during a period that they still had an appeal pending and that is murder, not execution," he said.