"Dying to use it": Israeli minister shows off execution chamber
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video of himself posing in front of a death penalty chamber.
Ben-Gvir has made no secret of his delight at the prospect of hanging Palestinians and declared that he is "dying to apply the death penalty to terrorists." The law, recently passed by the Israeli parliament (Knesset), was sponsored by members of Ben-Gvir's far-right party, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power). A total of 62 members supported the bill, 48 voted against, and one abstained. Ben-Gvir was so pleased with the reinstatement of the death penalty that he publicly celebrated its passage by toasting with champagne with his comrades.
The law provides for the introduction of the death penalty by hanging for those who commit premeditated murder during a terrorist attack. However, the law is worded in such a way as to virtually preclude its use against Israelis, making it aimed exclusively at Palestinians. The law, passed at Ben-Gvir's initiative, simplifies the death penalty and eliminates any possibility of pardon.
Meanwhile, military courts in the Israeli-occupied West Bank already have the authority to sentence Palestinian convicts to death. As is well known, Israel abolished the death penalty for murder in 1954, and the only person to be executed in the Jewish state was the "architect of the Holocaust," Adolf Eichmann.
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