Israel's new death penalty law is a Jim Crow lynching law — built to execute Palestinians while shielding Israelis who commit identical crimes. Baruch Goldstein slaughtered 29 Palestinians and still wouldn't qualify under this law, yet a Palestinian who resists a settler raid could hang. This is state-sanctioned ethnic extermination dressed up as counterterrorism.
Executing convicted terrorist murderers isn't cruelty — it's the only punishment that guarantees they never kill again. Yahya Sinwar got a life sentence, ran terrorist operations from inside prison and masterminded October 7 after being released. Deterrence aside, execution permanently ends recidivism, and roughly 80% of convicted murderers released in prisoner swaps returned to terrorism.
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