Israel does not have the death penalty except for Nazi war criminals. She should. The mastermind of the Netanya massacre was given 35 consecutive life sentences and then some. He should be sentenced to be blown up by a nail bomb.
The Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday sentenced Hamas terrorist Abbas al-Sayad to 35 consecutive life sentences and an additional 50-year prison term after he was convicted of initiating and planning the terror attack at Netanya’s Park Hotel.
The suicide bombing claimed the lives of 30 people and wounded scores who attended a Passover Eve dinner in March 2002.
The “scores” wounded amounts to 140 people wounded–many of them maimed for life.
What I hadn’t realized all those years ago is that there were about 250 guests at the Passover Seder. The bombing took out more than half of them.
If ever a man deserved to die, this one does.
And in the “Cry me a river” dept.:
Attorney Nir Mamon, who represented al-Sayad on behalf of the Public Defender’s Office, said that he believes the conviction and the punishment should be appealed to the Supreme Court and that a decision on the matter would be made in the next few weeks.
He claimed that al-Sayad suffered from serious physical violence for many hours during his interrogation and that his rights were violated during the interrogations and the trial.
His rights were violated. Seriously. Un-effing-believable.
One of the problems with Israel having no death penalty in cases like this is that we all know that, somewhere down the pike, there will be negotiations to release this guy in some sort of “prisoner swap” (i.e., as part of an exchange for the bodies of murdered Israelis or for information about murdered Israelis) or as a goodwill gesture to further the “peace process.”
“Israel does not have the death penalty except for Nazi war criminals.”
Strictly speaking we do have the DP, it is just that it is the paractice not to apply it.
From time to time the debate on the subject starts again.
After a rigorous interrogation he should have been hanged 35 ties (adn cut down jsut before dying) and then given the full medieval treatment (drawing and quartering).
Ice-water drowning allows for revival, you know. Don’t sentence him to consecutive life sentences. Give him consecutive DEATH sentences.
Drown, revive, repeat… it’s no more difficult to figure out than shampoo.
–Howard
Al-Sayad should NOT be blown up by a nail bomb. That would be too quick. He should be positioned just far enough away so as to be maimed by a nail bomb, with the shrapnel in his organs and extremities. The man should suffer a slow painful death or a long painful life.
If anyone thinks that Al-Sayad is entitled to Geneva Convention rights, let me point out that this treatment is in line with the sections dealing with unlawful combatants, spies, and saboteurs. A country that catches a saboteur can do what it wants with him or her.
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One of the interesting ways to pass some time on the internet is to find the various groups in the West that oppose capital punishment and then see their sympathies on the Middle East conflict.
No prizes for guessing where most of them fall. I’m sure there’s some reason for this other than the obvious one, but I can’t figure out what it is.