Israel moves toward death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, unveils 'Green Mile' plan
Israel’s Prison Service is preparing to apply a death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, including creating a facility nicknamed 'Israel’s Green Mile' for executions and sending a delegation to study how capital punishment works elsewhere. A death-penalty bill passed its first Knesset reading and would, at least initially, target Hamas’ Nukhba and other serious attackers, with executions planned by hanging and carried out within 90 days of a final verdict. The plan would not apply to Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians. Rights groups and UN experts have condemned the move, calling it a dangerous, unprecedented expansion of state violence.