Israel’s Parliament passed a law on Monday that would allow the hanging of Palestinians convicted of deadly militant attacks, but critics say it will almost certainly not be applied to Jewish extremists convicted of similar crimes.
Israeli civilian courts — which try Israeli Jewish and Arab citizens — can apply the death penalty only for homicides intended to “negate the existence of the State of Israel.” Given that, it would effectively be impossible to execute Jewish extremists like Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli settler who gunned down 29 Palestinians at a West Bank holy site in 1994, said Mr. Sapir, who is now a law professor at Tel Aviv University.
Palestinians sentenced to death in military courts will not be eligible for a pardon or a commutation of their sentence, according to several Israeli legal scholars.
The law stipulates that they must be executed within 180 days at the maximum, limiting the potential for retrials. And while most U.S. states require a unanimous jury verdict for the death penalty, the Israeli law requires only a simple majority of judges.
Israel’s national doctors’ union has refused to carry out lethal injections, so those convicted will face death by hanging. Some right-wing Israeli lawmakers enthusiastically adopted the noose as a symbol of their support for the law, wearing golden noose-shaped pins on their lapels in the Knesset.
Opinion polls have shown a majority of Jewish Israelis backs the legislation. The law passed with muted public backlash and with the support of some members of the parliamentary opposition.
any country that is still allied with Israel, even those who say bs like “we are concerned about…” are 100% complicit and have blood on their hands.
Israel murder one sixth of Gaza with the blessing of “western civilization”. and they are going to kill the rest too.