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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to members of the Knesset on March 18, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to members of the Knesset on March 18, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.
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    In Preliminary Vote, Knesset Votes for Death Penalty to Terrorists

    “This is a consideration of justice in extreme circumstances,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • Inset image: Gustave Doré, 'Achan Is Stoned to Death,' 1866.
    Inset image: Gustave Doré, 'Achan Is Stoned to Death,' 1866.
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    On Capital Punishment

    Talmudic rabbis pondered the most fundamental ethical questions—including the value of human life—in debating death sentences by hanging or stoning

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Members of the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 14, 2015.
    Members of the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 14, 2015.
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    Knesset Rejects Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill, 96-4

    The only party to vote for it was the one that proposed it

    byYair Rosenberg
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    Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: To Kill or Not to Kill?

    Seeking answers about justice from my late father

    byMarjorie Ingall
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    Incestuous Rapists Get What They Deserve

    Talmudic rabbis believe ‘the hand of Heaven’ makes sure that the punishment fits the crime

    byAdam Kirsch
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    White Supremacist Executed for Synagogue Murder

    Joseph Paul Franklin shot Gerald Gordon outside St. Louis temple in 1977

    byStephanie Butnick
  • Richard Goldstone, late last year.(Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images)
    Richard Goldstone, late last year.(Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Report: Goldstone Was An Apartheid Judge

    U.N. report author sentenced 28 blacks to death

    byMarc Tracy
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