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Israel’s death penalty law has little to do with criminal justice and everything to do with ethno-nationalism

  • Written by Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
imageA Palestinian protester holds a placard showing a crossed-out noose during a rally in the Beit Jala village near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.Mosab Shawer/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

In its nearly 80-year history, the state of Israel has carried out only one court-sanctioned execution: Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of...

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