Posted on 11/02/2009 9:35:13 PM PST by BlackVeil
As Israel struggled to grasp the motive for the brutal murder of six members of the Oshrenko family, including two young children, four MKs from the coalition and the opposition called Monday for the establishment of a death penalty for the murder of children under the age of 13. ...
The law would be an amendment to clause 300 of the Criminal Code. The bill's sponsors emphasized that "in light of the revelations of circumstances surrounding the murder of the Oshrenkos, the bill would try to prevent a repeat of circumstances in which people murder babies and children 'just because they resemble their fathers,'" as the suspect in the Oshrenko killings said he did, and that "in extreme circumstances one must act with extreme measures."
"Every murder is horrifying and incomprehensible," said Shama, "but there is something in the murder of helpless and defenseless young children that requires a response, and a unique and extreme punishment. Human life is sacred, but murderers of children are not humans, but rather predatory animals."
Israel had a death penalty until 1954 as part of its criminal code, which dated back to the British Mandate.
On November 23, 1950, the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced David Yakobovich to death after he was found guilty of a murder in the city, but the sentence was lifted after the Supreme Court amended his conviction to manslaughter instead of murder. In 1954, the Knesset amended the criminal law to eliminate the death penalty.
The death penalty still exists for a number of treason-related offenses, with the law mandating that the means of execution is death by hanging. ...
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Call for capital punishment.
Executing these scumbags is too kind and easy on them.
Aholes like this should be wired up to a Model T spark coil
and the public allowed to flip the switch 24 * 7 in the public square for the rest of their lives.
Force feed them and keep their nerve system healthy for a long time.
“Human life is sacred, but murderers of children are not humans, but rather predatory animals.”
Put them ALL to death. A predator is a predator, regardless of the age of the victim.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
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A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert ... The child left in the desert after the rape was three years old ...
He is going to be beheaded then his body nailed up so that the public gets the message. Very proper.
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