“We are firmly against the death penalty and we are taking it all over the world,” Baerbock said Tuesday in Berlin during a meeting with her colleague Cohen. It belongs to the new Israeli right-wing religious government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“States around the world are moving away from this brutal practice, in part because it has been shown to be ineffective as a deterrent,” Baerbock said. In Germany, you learn in school that while Israel is under the threat of terror like no other country, it has carried out the death penalty only once in its history – against the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
The Israeli cabinet on Sunday approved a bill that provides for the death penalty for terrorists. The controversial proposal still has to undergo several readings in parliament before it can enter into force. A first vote is expected on Wednesday.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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