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Israel's New Death Penalty Law Won't Apply to Jews

• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz

One of the many conditions of incoming Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman for joining the coalition government, Israel's parliament is quickly advancing a new bill to allow the military to impose the death penalty.

Under current Israeli law, the death penalty is only possible for genocide or treason, and in practice Israel hasn't sought a single execution in decades. The return to the more routine use of executions is controversial, and coalition member Kulanu has said they will oppose the bill.

Likud officials, however, are defending the law and trying to downplay concerns about it domestically on the grounds that the law won't apply to Jews, even if those Jews are convicted of the same terror offenses.


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