Governor Gavin Newsom
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And what is the intention behind the bill, do you think?
The intention is, first of all, to start executions in Israel, which we didn't have for more than 60 years.
The only time the criminal system sent anyone to death in Israel is Adolf Eichmann in 1962.
So Israel has no tradition of executions of terrorists, although we had many terrorists in our history.
So the idea here is to start it.
And the people who suggest this bill, they know that there's a big majority in the people that support it.
So it's also a populist suggestion.
And the aim is deterrence, though, isn't it, I guess?
Of course, what they say that it will deter the terrorists.
But when I read research from the United States, which is the only Western democracy that has the capital punishment for murders, we see that it's very hard to show that there's any deterrence at all for the capital punishment.
And of course, at least from my point of view, that when
Someone who is committing a terrorist attack is taking such a big chance for his life anyway.
So the chances that the capital punishment will be something that deters him are very, very low.
And also the position of the officials, of the heads of security services for years in Israel was that it will not deter and even it would probably be counter-effective with fighting terrorism.
It's still got a couple more parliamentary votes before it becomes law.
What is your sense of whether it will eventually find its way on the statute books?
There is a big chance that it will be ratified because there is a big public support for it.
And we even saw in the first reading that most of the opposition were reluctant to come and to vote against.
And some of them even voted for.
So there is a big chance still there will be deliberations and the legal officers will try to persuade them that this is unconstitutional.
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