The Knesset Israel’s parliament intends to discuss next week on a bill that will make it easier to sentence Palestinian attackers to death Israeli war minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday vowing to have it passed.
“After over three years of a stubborn struggle the death penalty . . . will finally be brought to the law committee next Wednesday [Nov. 14] and then for its first reading in the Knesset plenum” Lieberman said in Twitter remarks.
“We won’t relent or stop until completing the mission.”
The bill which passed a preliminary vote by the full Parliament in January would ease the requirements military courts in the occupied West Bank must meet to sentence Palestinians convicted of alleged crimes to death.
As the law stands now a panel of three military judges must unanimously approve any death penalty in military courts.
The new bill planned by members of Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party at his behest would change the requirement to a majority instead of unanimity.
