Tag: Death Penalty

New evidence has surfaced revealing that Jews, along with Black female jurors, were systematically excluded from Alameda County's death penalty juries in California dating back to 1977.
Robert Badinter, a prominent French figure known for his advocacy against the death penalty and his commitment to the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity, passed away recently.
Rabbi Shlomo Brody, director of an organization focused on aging, end-of-life care, and organ donation, discusses the topic of capital punishment within the Jewish tradition.
In this discussion, Rabbi Shlomo Brody addresses the topic of capital punishment in Judaism, particularly in relation to the case of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.
Jedidiah Murphy, a Jewish man on death row in Texas for the murder of Bertie Lee Cunningham, is scheduled to be executed on October 10, 2023, which coincidentally is the World Day Against the Death Penalty recognized by the United Nations.
After the death penalty was sentenced for Robert Bowers, the man who murdered 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, six Jewish scholars discuss Judaism's stance on capital punishment.
The man responsible for the deadliest crime against Jews in American history, the Tree of Life shooter, has been found eligible to receive the death penalty.
An American jury recently found the gunman responsible for the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh guilty on all 63 counts, including the murder of 11 Jews, among them Joyce Fienberg, who attended the synagogue daily and was a Toronto native.
The article discusses the case of Pesach Rubenstein, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who was one of the first (possibly the first) Jews in post-American Revolutionary New York to be sentenced to death in 1876.
Ronen Bergman's book "Rise and Kill First" delves into Israel's history of targeted assassinations, spanning from pre-statehood to the present day.