{"id":41934,"date":"2026-03-29T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41934\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:48:08","slug":"european-countries-appeal-to-israel-to-abandon-plans-to-revive-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41934\/","title":{"rendered":"European countries appeal to Israel to abandon plans to revive death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Four European countries have called on Israel to abandon a bill seeking to revive the death penalty for people convicted of acts of terrorism, a measure opponents say would target only Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a joint statement on Sunday ahead of an anticipated final vote in the Knesset on Monday, foreign ministers from France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom expressed their \u201cdeep concern\u201d about the bill.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe death penalty is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterring effect,\u201d the ministers said, calling for those behind the bill to end the initiative. \u201cThis is why we oppose the death penalty, whatever the circumstances around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israel?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel<\/a> abolished the death penalty for murder in 1954. It remains applicable only for specific cases such as genocide or treason in wartime.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">No death sentence handed down by a regular court has been carried out since the execution of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1962.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">If the current legislative initiative is approved, Palestinians convicted by military courts in the occupied territories of a terrorist-motivated murder would face a mandatory death sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four European countries have called on Israel to abandon a bill seeking to revive the death penalty for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17853,54,382,537,37,384,4028,2253,691],"class_list":{"0":"post-41934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-adolf-eichmann","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-knesset","15":"tag-palestinians","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116314905121979444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}