Death penalty

Ben-Gvir switches terrorist execution method to hanging in revised death penalty bill

“We’re coming up with the best outline, the most exact one,” Ben-Gvir told the panel.

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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on December 31, 2025.
A VEHICLE of the Tate County Sheriff is seen parked outside a gas station convenience store after a shooting, in Arkabutla, Mississippi, US February 17, 2023.

Mississippi man arrested for murder of family members, pastor, no known motive

The charge against Daricka Moore, a county resident, is likely to be upgraded to capital murder, and the death penalty is a possibility if he is found mentally competent, officials said.

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Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on February 21, 2023.

Netanyahu promised to advance death penalty bill before October 7, Ben-Gvir claims

Ben-Gvir also stated that the Attorney-General's call to dismiss him was his “greatest award.” “It shows I influenced, I led policy in the South, I changed the Prison Service,” he said.

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FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2, 2022.

UN rights experts, influential women condemn Iran’s 'sham' trial of activist Zahra Tabari

Tabari was convicted by a Revolutionary Court in Rasht in October on the grounds of armed rebellion, in an online trial that lasted less than ten minutes.

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Will Iran's regime mass execute arrested protestors? -analysis

As of Sunday, Iran’s judiciary sentenced five people to death in what human rights activists deem sham trials.

NOVEMBER 18, 2022ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran, September 19, 2022.

Hamas executes five Palestinians, two for ‘collaborating’ with Israel

A statement published by the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Interior said that two men were executed by firing squad and hanging on charges of collaboration with Israel.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian Hamas terrorists attend an anti-Israel rally in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip May 27, 2021

Myanmar executes four democracy activists after decades of no death penalty

Myanmar's military junta said today that it had executed four democracy activists accused of helping to carry out "terror acts" in the country, causing an uproar.

JULY 25, 2022ByREUTERS
Myanmar flag.

‘Death sentence certain’ for German-Iranian journalist

The Iranian regime kidnapped Jamshid Sharmahd in 2020 and claims he played role in the 2008 Shiraz attack that killed 14.

JULY 23, 2022ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Jamshid Sharmahd

Turkey mulls return of death penalty after Erdogan's wildfires threats

Erdogan said the punishment for burning forests should be "intimidating" to the point of death sentences, words taken by Turkey's justice minister as "instructions."

JUNE 25, 2022ByREUTERS
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses supporters during a ceremony in Istanbul, last year.

Kremlin: Death penalty for captured US citizens cannot be ruled out

The Kremlin has said that the two Americans detained in Ukraine were mercenaries not covered by the Geneva Conventions.

JUNE 21, 2022ByREUTERS
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov speaks during the annual end-of-year news conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia December 19, 2019. Picture taken December 19, 2019

Letters to the Editor May 25, 2022: Apples to oranges

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

MAY 24, 2022ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

The death penalty does not prevent terror attacks - opinion

Death by hanging, shooting or gassing for terrorists will tear away the soul of the State of Israel.

MAY 22, 2022ByHAROLD GOLDMEIER
THE LATE US senator John McCain who endured five years of torture. To rely on confessions to justify the death penalty is obscene.

The Elad terrorists should face the death penalty - opinion

If convicted after a trial and any judicial appeals, should two men who hacked three Israelis to death with axes, in an act of unparalleled barbarism, be permitted to live?

MAY 9, 2022BySHMULEY BOTEACH
MOURNERS WEEP at the grave of Boaz Gol, murdered in the Elad terrorist attack on Thursday. If the terrorists who chopped Jews to death in Elad are not the very epitome of evil, the word has no meaning.

Israeli receives death penalty in UAE for drug possession

Fida Kewan's sibling alleged she was "tormented and beaten" in Emirati prison as he called for the Foreign Ministry to intervene.

APRIL 5, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A line of cocaine is seen being snorted through a rolled up dollar.