Israel
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist for ordinary crimes
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes...
- News items in the archive
- 96
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Israel is classified as Abolitionist for ordinary crimes in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 96 news items on Israel, from 1999 to today.
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- JANUARY 1, 2008IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Israel voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
Israel voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- JANUARY 1, 2007IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
- MAY 4, 2006IsraelDEATH PENALTY
ISRAEL. CALL TO EXECUTE PRO-HAMAS MPS
the leader of the Jewish ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party called for the execution of those Israeli Arab MPs who had been in contact with members of the Palestinian Hamas government.
- FEBRUARY 8, 2006IsraelDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. TARGET KILLING IS 'EXECUTION WITHOUT TRIAL', ANNAN
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that Israel had the right to defend its citizens, but criticized the policy of targeted killings, saying that they were like, "executions without trial."
- JANUARY 1, 2006IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
- DECEMBER 22, 2005IsraelDEATH PENALTY
ISRAEL. 3 PALESTINIANS EXTRA-JUDICIALLY EXECUTED BY IOF IN NABLUS
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) extra-judicially executed 3 Palestinians in Nablus.
- MAY 8, 2005JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. COURT SENTENCES FUGITIVE ISRAELIS IN MURDER CASE
the Jordanian Supreme Criminal Court handed down sentences in absentia against three Israeli defendants after convicting them of premeditated murder, being an accessory to murder and inciting premeditated murder.
- APRIL 20, 2005IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Israel was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Israel was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- JANUARY 1, 2005IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
- APRIL 21, 2004IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Israel was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Israel was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 12, 2004IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954.
- JULY 29, 2003IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Minister Yisrael Katz proposed to legislate a law that...
Minister Yisrael Katz proposed to legislate a law that would impose the death sentence on any Israeli citizen assisting in the murder of other Israelis as part of his support for an enemy country or a terrorist organization
- APRIL 15, 2003IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission condemned Israel for...
The UN Human Rights Commission condemned Israel for "acts of mass killing" and "'liquidation' or 'extrajudicial executions'" against Palestinians
- APRIL 15, 2003IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission condemned Israel for...
The UN Human Rights Commission condemned Israel for "acts of mass killing" and "'liquidation' or 'extrajudicial executions'" against Palestinians
- APRIL 3, 2003IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that in Nablus, West...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that in Nablus, West Bank, the "Occupation forces executed Khalid Ali Rayyan, 33, after storming a residential building in Asirah street at dawn? Our correspondent said that occupation forces shot Rayyan dead after arrest
- MARCH 5, 2003IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh blasted the Israeli...
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh blasted the Israeli army's "extrajudiciary executions" of Palestinians, saying Israel's method of fighting terrorism was "entirely reprehensible"
- JANUARY 1, 2003IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes...
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954
- DECEMBER 25, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation forces executed 32-year-old Ibrahim Talib Abu-Hawwash by opening fire on him after storming a building in Nablus
- DECEMBER 23, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that special Israeli...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that special Israeli army units executed Shaman Hasan Subuh, 28, and Mustafa Jalal Qash, 28, from Burqin village in Jenin Governorate
- DECEMBER 9, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The Israeli Shin Bet Security Service arrested a man...
The Israeli Shin Bet Security Service arrested a man it says was the sniper who shot 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass, and Jewish settler leaders called for the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Palestinian security sources revealed that Israeli...
Palestinian security sources revealed that Israeli occupation forces randomly opened fire at a group of residents in the occupied city of Jenin, killing 16-year old Abd-al-Karim al-Sa'di
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Four Palestinian quarry workers were killed by Israeli...
Four Palestinian quarry workers were killed by Israeli occupation soldiers near the southern West Bank village of Bani Na'im
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Four Palestinian quarry workers were killed by Israeli...
Four Palestinian quarry workers were killed by Israeli occupation soldiers near the southern West Bank village of Bani Na'im
- AUGUST 31, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Israeli helicopter gunships attacked a car and a house...
Israeli helicopter gunships attacked a car and a house at a village near Jenin in the West Bank, killing five Palestinians, two of them children
- AUGUST 12, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The Palestinian radio Voice of Palestine said Israeli...
The Palestinian radio Voice of Palestine said Israeli occupation forces executed Ghazal Fyrayhat in Al-Yamun village, west of Jenin, this morning
- JULY 19, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
A prominent West Bank rabbi is facing police investigation...
A prominent West Bank rabbi is facing police investigation for suggesting that Israeli soldiers who refuse to serve in the occupied territories might be liable for execution under Jewish religious law
- JULY 12, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Knesset Member [Herut party Chairman] Mikhael Kleiner...
Knesset Member [Herut party Chairman] Mikhael Kleiner says that if [the leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction in the West Bank] Marwan al-Barghuthi is indeed convicted of what he is charged with; namely, the cold-blooded and premeditated murder of many
- APRIL 20, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Evidence of freshly-dug graves with the bodies of up...
Evidence of freshly-dug graves with the bodies of up to 200 Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin was seen by the Sunday Express
- APRIL 10, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat accused Israel...
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat accused Israel of having killed some 500 Palestinians in its West Bank offensive, saying Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had gone "crazy