Story highlights Hundreds of soldiers and recruits are thought to have been executed by ISIS in June 2014

Twenty-four men have been sentenced to death in connection with the massacre near Camp Speicher

(CNN) A Baghdad court sentenced 24 men to death by hanging Wednesday over a June 2014 massacre committed by militants near the Iraqi city of Tikrit, said a spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council.

Four others were acquitted, the spokesman, Abdul Sattar Bayrakdar, said in a statement released by his office.

ISIS claimed to have executed hundreds of recruits and soldiers captured last year outside Camp Speicher, a fortified Iraqi base near Tikrit.

Bayrakdar said sufficient evidence had been presented for the court to convict, "including the confessions of the defendants in the investigation phase, which matched the facts and the records of forensic evidence."

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