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Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell

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

A 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 the Nazi holocaust.

But under a law passed by the Israeli parliament on March 30, 2026, that restraint has been thrown out the window.

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