Israel: ‘The New Death Penalty Law Sorts People Into Separate Legal Universes

On 30 March, the Israeli Parliament passed a bill expanding the death penalty for terrorism-related offences. The new law lowers the threshold for capital punishment from unanimity to a simple majority of judges and mandates execution by hanging. Its wording is designed to apply primarily, if not exclusively, to Palestinians. Civil society has condemned the law as entrenching apartheid, while human rights experts warn it violates international law.

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