Capital punishment bill for killer-terrorists passes preliminary Knesset reading

By a slender majority of 52 to 49, the Knesset Wednesday approved the preliminary reading of the capital punishment law for terrorist-murderers.  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu cast his vote for the bill against some of his Likud party members, who called for the motion to be cleared first in a security cabinet debate. If approved by the cabinet, the bill will be referred to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee to prepare the draft for its first reading in the full House.
Although capital punishment is on Israel’s law books for certain extreme crimes, only one civil execution has ever taken place, when the Nazi Adolf Eichmann was hanged in 1962. In all other cases, including terrorist offenses, the death sentence was always commuted.

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13 thoughts on “Capital punishment bill for killer-terrorists passes preliminary Knesset reading

  • Jan 3, 2018 @ 19:09 at 19:09
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    Long overdue. Hopefully it passes and is used every time a scumbag terrorist kills an Israeli. There needs to be a quick trail and execution with no exceptions.

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  • Jan 3, 2018 @ 21:11 at 21:11
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    Hell yeah! Great news!

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  • Jan 3, 2018 @ 22:49 at 22:49
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    Its like the end of the GDR in 1990!
    >100.000 People in the streets demonstrating in different cities and a long delay in the orders of the security forces, as they had no clear szenario what to do in such a case.
    Also security forces are not highly motivated to shoot the own people if there are masses and the word of mouth also spreads to them as they are also ordinary people in their private lives.

    Lets hope for the best, a swift regime change with not too much blood wasted.

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    • Jan 3, 2018 @ 22:52 at 22:52
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      wrong tab to post this. made a mistake, sorry

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  • Jan 3, 2018 @ 23:17 at 23:17
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    The problem with capital punishment is that there is no undo!
    So what if someone gots sentenced by false proof or the like.

    It is better to have heavy prison for terrorists and use them to sort garbage (plastics in one bin and paper in another) as to execute them. As there may be errors.
    Or at least have them sorting garbage for at least 10 years before killing them.

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  • Jan 3, 2018 @ 23:47 at 23:47
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    So they can only be released in a body bag unlike prisoner swaps. They kill our men anyway. You know the saying a “dead terrorist is a good Arab”. It is a waste of money, high sought after real estate in prison by keeping them alive.

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  • Jan 4, 2018 @ 16:20 at 16:20
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    They should be rehabiltated first.After all they had there land stolen by the jews.

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    • Jan 4, 2018 @ 17:20 at 17:20
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      Hypocrite Dave, what are you doing on stolen Native American land called Canada?

      F Off to Eurabia.

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    • Jan 4, 2018 @ 23:01 at 23:01
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      No you idiot we were giving that land by the UN, it was then tried more then a few times to be stolen, which did not work out well for them and they still keep trying.

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  • Jan 4, 2018 @ 18:53 at 18:53
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    There is no difference between the Arab terrorists and Adolf Eichmann; they are the same, Nazi’s!

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  • Jan 4, 2018 @ 21:50 at 21:50
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    It will save lives. If they’re dead, they can’t kill again, can they?

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