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Israel only used the death penalty once, but that might be about to change
The Israel Guys9.1K views • 803 likes • 54 comments11 months ago • 1:15 min
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Israeli lawmakers have just proposed a law that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for terrorists with blood on their hands.
This bill was actually proposed earlier in the war, but out of concerns for the wellbeing of the hostages being held in Gaza the bill was shelved. Now that all the living hostages are home, Israel is once again considering the bill.
Bibi Netanyahu is said to be in favor of the bill.
Here’s the crazy thing. Had this law already been in place, Oct 7 would have never happened. Yahya Sinwar, who was the mastermind behind the October 7th attack was previously in Israeli prison for butchering 10 Palestinians who he believed were collaborating with Israel. For his crime he was sentenced to 5 life sentences. However, instead of executing Yahya, Israel performed a life-saving operation on him and removed a cancerous tumor from his brain - literally saving his life. Yahya was released from prison in the Gilad Shait deal in 2011.
Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the holocaust, is the only person in Israel to have been executed by the state.
Born March 19, 1906, in Solingen, Germany, Otto Adolf Eichmann grew up in Linz, Austria. A mediocre student and salesman, he joined the Nazi Party (1932) and SS, rising in the SD as a “Jewish expert.” He mastered Hebrew and Zionism—not for sympathy, but expulsion.
In 1938, he forced 100,000 Austrian Jews out via terror and bureaucracy. By 1939, he ran Central Emigration Offices in Vienna, Prague, and Berlin. After Poland’s fall, he deported thousands to Nisko’s death swamp. In 1941, he became head of RSHA IV B4—Heydrich’s deportation chief.
January 20, 1942: Wannsee Conference. Eichmann took minutes as 11 million Jews were slated for murder. He coordinated trains to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibór—overseeing the gassing of millions. In Hungary (1944), he deported 437,000 Jews in 56 days, defying Himmler’s halt. “I’ll leap laughing into the grave,” he boasted, “with five million on my conscience.”
As Berlin fell (1945), he burned files and fled. Captured briefly, he escaped to Argentina as Ricardo Klement (1950). He worked at Mercedes-Benz; his family joined him in 1952.
Mossad hunted him. On May 11, 1960, agents seized him on Garibaldi Street. He was drugged and flown to Israel, he faced trial in Jerusalem (April 11, 1961). In a bulletproof glass booth, he claimed: “I was just a cog.” The evidence proved the contrary.
Verdict: Guilty
Sentence: Death by hanging
Execution: May 31, 1962—hanged at Ramla, body cremated, ashes scattered in the Mediterranean sea in international waters.
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