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[Israel] Coalition negotiators agree: Death penalty for terrorists
INN ^ | 5/19/2016, 5:05 PM | Ari Soffer

Posted on 05/19/2016 7:43:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Negotiators from the Likud and Yisrael Beytenu parties have agreed to accept the latter’s demands for the death penalty for terrorist murderers, as a condition for entering the coalition government.

According to the agreement, the IDF military court — which is technically able to level the death penalty, but maintains an unofficial moratorium on it — will be issued new instructions, by which a simple majority of two judges can hand down a death sentence to terrorists convicted of murder.

Currently, the law requires all three judges to unanimously agree. …

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: avigdorliberman; deathpenalty; israel; likud; mandelblit; rop; stateofpalestine; waronterror; weinstein; yehudaweinstein; yisraelbeytenu

1 posted on 05/19/2016 7:43:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe a coin flip scenario.
Heads I win. Tails you loose.


2 posted on 05/19/2016 7:50:03 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Olog-hai

The terrorist IMO needs to pay a great price for their discretion; The nearest relative to the convicted terrorist should also be executed. It may be brutal but the terrorist should really pay the price for his/her actions.


3 posted on 05/19/2016 7:54:38 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah, like they’d be waiting over twenty years to be executed?


4 posted on 05/19/2016 7:56:40 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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