In its nearly 80-year history, the state of Israel has carried out only one court-sanctioned execution: Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Nazi holocaust. But under a law passed by the Israeli parliament on March 30, 2026, that restraint has been thrown out the window. Death by hanging will now become the default sentence … Continue reading Israel’s death penalty law has little to do with criminal justice and everything to do with ethno-nationalism