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.
Latest news
- APRIL 10, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The head of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group offered...
The head of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group offered to free a captive Israeli colonel in return for the safety of around 100 Palestinian fighters besieged in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin
- APRIL 7, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian military court sentenced six people to...
A Palestinian military court sentenced six people to death for collaborating with Israel in a secret session held in the pre-dawn hours in Gaza City, Palestinian security officials said
- APRIL 7, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The occupation forces [Israel Defence Forces] executed...
The occupation forces [Israel Defence Forces] executed in cold blood five old people in front of their relatives at dawn in Jenin
- APRIL 3, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
New Zealand would be prepared to play a peacekeeping...
New Zealand would be prepared to play a peacekeeping role in the Middle East if there was a settlement under the terms proposed by the United Nations, Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff said
- APRIL 2, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Israel revoked the credentials of two Abu Dhabi Television...
Israel revoked the credentials of two Abu Dhabi Television journalists Leileh Odeh and Bassam Azawi after Abu Dhabi Television broadcast a story saying that Israeli troops had executed a group of young men in Ramallah
- APRIL 1, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Palestinian Minister for International Co-operation...
Palestinian Minister for International Co-operation Nabil Shaath said the Israelis had executed nine unarmed Palestinians in cold blood in Ramallah
- APRIL 1, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Palestinian head of preventive security in the West...
Palestinian head of preventive security in the West Bank Jibril Rajoub said Israeli forces killed about 30 Palestinian security officers in Ramallah
- APRIL 1, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Palestinian head of preventive security in the West...
Palestinian head of preventive security in the West Bank Jibril Rajoub said Israeli forces killed about 30 Palestinian security officers in Ramallah
- APRIL 1, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
As the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians...
As the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians turns increasingly ugly, Israeli troops face charges that they are carrying out execution-style killings
- MARCH 31, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian minister slammed as barbaric Israel's...
A Palestinian minister slammed as barbaric Israel's occupation of its territories and said the United States was wrong to describe Israel's latest moves as self-defence
- MARCH 31, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian minister slammed as barbaric Israel's...
A Palestinian minister slammed as barbaric Israel's occupation of its territories and said the United States was wrong to describe Israel's latest moves as self-defence
- MARCH 12, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
A top Iranian cleric called for the trial and execution...
A top Iranian cleric called for the trial and execution of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for alleged war crimes against Palestinians
- MARCH 11, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber was "executed...
A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber was "executed in cold blood after his arrest", witnesses said
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
A commission of Israel's national bar association condemned...
A commission of Israel's national bar association condemned Israel's policy of extra-judicial killings [of Palestinians]
- FEBRUARY 11, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The Palestinian Media Centre web site said Israeli...
The Palestinian Media Centre web site said Israeli occupation forces executed 13-year-old Samir Abu Mayala from Al-Thuri neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem after shooting him in the shoulder
- JANUARY 7, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
European Union Council President and Spanish foreign...
European Union Council President and Spanish foreign minister Josep Pique announced his plans for a tour the following week of Middle Eastern countries in an effort to broker peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- JANUARY 1, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes...
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954
- DECEMBER 11, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
December 11, 20001: Palestinian National Authority...
December 11, 20001: Palestinian National Authority (PNA) officials criticized a European Union statement for equalizing the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories with the Palestinians' legal resistance of the occupation
- DECEMBER 9, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
In a contribution to the Washington Post, Emanuel Gross,...
In a contribution to the Washington Post, Emanuel Gross, a professor of law at Haifa University since 1992, who served in the Israel Defence Forces for 25 years, first as a soldier and later as a judge at military tribunals, said capital punishment was no
- DECEMBER 5, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The European Union's 15 member states were among 114...
The European Union's 15 member states were among 114 countries that agreed an unprecedented declaration reaffirming the illegality of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories and calling on Israel to respect international humanitarian law
- NOVEMBER 19, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Fighting was reported in the Palestinian territory...
Fighting was reported in the Palestinian territory of Gaza after three Israeli tanks entered the town of Beit Janun in an apparent operation to arrest Palestinian activists, Palestinian police said
- NOVEMBER 13, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International's new report 'Broken lives: a...
Amnesty International's new report 'Broken lives: a year of intifada', measured events of one year of the intifada against the universal human rights standards which should govern the actions of those in authority
- NOVEMBER 6, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed...
Three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in a gun battle that the Israeli army said was an ambush by gunmen but which Palestinian officials called a "pure execution" of Palestinian wounded
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that the army...
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that the army had committed unprecedented human rights violations, including execution without trial, during the current Palestinian uprising
- JANUARY 23, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The Reverend Rob Marshall criticised the disgraceful...
The Reverend Rob Marshall criticised the disgraceful actions of the Palestinian Authority and its show trials
- JANUARY 17, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Meretz leader Yossi Sarid condemned the executions:...
Meretz leader Yossi Sarid condemned the executions: "As a person who opposes assassinations of Palestinians by Israel, I believe I have the full moral authority to call on the PA to stop the executions," he said
- JANUARY 14, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak denounced the Palestinian...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak denounced the Palestinian Authority's execution of two collaborators convicted of helping Israel pinpoint and kill Palestinian activists during the current uprising
- JANUARY 1, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes...
The country has been abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1954
- NOVEMBER 5, 2000IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The Chechen man who hijacked a Dagestan airliner and...
The Chechen man who hijacked a Dagestan airliner and forced it to land in Israel was handed over to Russian authorities after they pledged not to seek the death penalty for the crime
- JUNE 2, 2000IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer wrote a private letter...
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer wrote a private letter to the attorney-general