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Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Seeks Ban on Death Penalty for Severely Mentally Ill Defendants

Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton (pictured) testified in state legislative hearings on October 14 that Ohio should ban use of the death penalty against defendants who suffer from serious mental illness when they commit a capital crime. Stratton, a Republican who was appointed to the court in 1996 and served, following reelection, until 2012, called the death penalty “inefficient, ineffective and a great burden on our society.” Stratton said that the U.S. Supreme Court has barred the execution of juveniles and people with intellectual disabilities because of their reduced culpability.  She told the Ohio Senate Criminal Justice Committee that people with serious mental illnesses have similarly reduced culpability. “Do we as a society say we want to execute someone who has diminished capacity and mental Illness?” Stratton asked the committee. Last year, the Ohio Supreme Court Joint Task Force on the Death Penalty issued 56 reform recommendations, including a ban on executing those with serious mental illness. Stratton said the bill would apply to defendants diagnosed with such serious mental illnesses as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depressive and delusional disorders. The bill has bipartisan sponsorship and is also supported by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

(A. Johnson, “Don’t execute mentally ill, lawmakers told,” The Columbus Dispatch, October 14, 2015.) See Mental Illness and Recent Legislation.

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Do pics prove killed Hebron girl was unarmed, with hands up?

NEW pictures have emerged that it is claimed show 16-year old Bayan Abd Al-Hadi, who was shot several times by border police in Hebron on Saturday morning, was unarmed.

It has been alleged she attacked a female officer with a knife at a checkpoint, injuring the woman’s hand.

Bayan died at the scene. No further investigations are thought to be ongoing at this time.

The photos show a female dressed in similar clothes to those worn by Bayan, facing a police woman whilst holding her arms above her head.

However the girl’s headscarf appears to be a different shade of green.

The policewoman is shown only from the back, but has a similar hairstyle to the one photographed and quoted by the Israeli police in media reports of the killing.

 

A girl is shown with hands above head
She opens her bag
She is seen kneeling
The first pic, published the day shooting took place
Wider angle: the girl is shown the day the shooting took place
"M" (pic: Israeli police)

 

Another two photographs show the Arab girl kneeling down to empty her backpack whilst the border police stand with guns pointed at her.

The cop, known only as “M”,  was quoted in an article in The Times of Israel this weekend, saying: “The terrorist approached the post and asked for directions to a certain place in the area.

“I told her the name did not sound familiar and that she should ask the locals when she arrived, when to my surprise she pulled out a knife and tried to stab me in the neck.”

The photos were posted on a Facebook page called “Can we get 1 Million Fans for Gaza?”

Social media has been a powerful force in the current unrest, with mobile phone footage and updates going viral almost instantly.

Israel has been widely condemned by the international community in recent days for using “excessive force” against Palestinians.

What do the pictures show? You decide.

13-year old Ahmad Manasra sent to detention from hospital

A 13-YEAR old boy at the centre of a diplomatic row after he was thought executed by the IOF has reportedly been relocated from an Israeli hospital to what the Israeli press has called a “detention facility”.

Ahmad Manasra and his cousin Hassan Manasra, 15, allegedly carried out a stabbing attack on a 13-year old Israeli boy and a 24 year old man in the illegal settlement of Pisgat Zeev in Jerusalem a week ago.

The Israeli boy, who had been on his bicycle on the way back from a sweet shop, remains seriously injured in hospital.

Later the same day, a video emerged of Ahmad lying helplessly on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head and broken legs, while adults screamed obscenities at him.

 

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In the distressing footage, voices in Hebrew and Arabic can be heard shouting: “Son of a whore!” and “Die, you fucker, shoot him in the head!”.

Israeli police claimed Ahmad was hit by a car after trying to run away.

The boy was photographed and filmed handcuffed to his hospital bed at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem at the end of last week, after days of national news reports claiming he was dead.

It is not yet known where he is being detained, or whether he will have access to a lawyer.

It was reported three days ago that state prosecutors were weighing up whether to request the boy, from  east Jerusalem, be kept captive until he was 14, which would allow him to be tried as an adult.

A major diplomatic row erupted after Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech on Wednesday night that the boy had been killed.

Israel’s government responded by releasing photos, a video and a statement about the boy. Mr Abbas later said he had been misled by an aide.

Israel’s handling of the case has drawn sharp criticism. Last week,  The Israeli Physicians for Humans Rights organization issued a statement that read:  “The fact that it is a photo of a minor in custody – who was photographed without his parents’ permission – is a violation of juvenile law and privacy laws”.

They added that the hospital violated medical ethics by giving permission to photograph and release footage of a patient.

 

Netanyahu rejects France’s calls for U.N observers at Al-Aqsa and Western Wall

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has opposed a request for international presence and observers at the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Quoted in Haa’retz yesterday (Sunday) he said there was “no mention of Palestinian incitement and Palestinian terrorism” in the draft U.N security council resolution.

Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, he said: “There is no mention of Palestinian incitement and Palestinian terrorism.

 

mosqueAl-Aqsa mosque’s famous golden dome, in Jerusalem’s old city.

“We’ve already seen what happens in holy sites in the Middle East when extreme Muslims destroy each other’s mosques, Christian sites, heritage sites, Jewish sites.

He added: “Israel is not the problem; it’s the solution. We maintain the status quo. We are the only ones doing so and we will keep doing it in a responsible and serious manner.

“There hasn’t been any change in the status quo – except for an attempt by some people – organized by Islamic groups in Israel, as well as extremist elements – to place explosives in mosques and attack Jews from within the mosques.”

French newspaper “Le Figaro” had reported on Saturday that French diplomats wanted a presidential statement on behalf of the UN Security Council calling for international observers to be deployed to Jerusalem’s holy sites to maintain the status quo.

Settlers given armed guard to evict two families from their homes

AT LEAST nine Palestinians have been forcibly evicted from their homes by settlers guarded by Israeli troops in the Silwan area of Jerusalem today (Monday) .

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center, based in Silwan,  said that a large number of Israeli border guards and Israeli officers went with members of the Israeli Ateret Cohanim organization, an extreme far-right organization, to the area of Batn al-Hawa, where the Palestinians lived.

They then surrounded two Palestinian homes, which they ransacked,  evicting a family of four and another family of five.

Helicopters were spotted flying overhead,  and Israeli police dogs were also used during the eviction.

One man, called Abdullah Abu Nab, was attacked with pepper spray during the shocking attack, which saw four of his five family members made homeless.

silwanThe Silwan area of east Jerusalem

In addition, five family members of the Sabri Abu Nab family were also forced from their home.

An Ateret Cohanim spokesman claimed that the organization had owned the Abu Nab family’s homes prior to 1948, a local Batn al-Hawa committee member, Zuheri al-Rajabi told Ma’an News.

Ateret Cohanim also claimed that the grounds used to house a synagogue, and that the Abu Nab family’s houses was built there illegally.

A Wadi Hilweh spokesman said that this eviction was part of a bigger plan by Ateret Cohanaim, to take over around 5,200 square metres of land in Batn al-Hawa.

It claims the land used to belong to Jewish Yemenite families. Israeli court have already issued several other eviction orders to some of the eighty Palestinian families in the area.

Earlier this year, the United Nations condemned similar evictions and demolitions, saying they were illegal and only served to create more tension.

A spokesman said in January: “Demolitions that result in forced evictions and displacement run counter to Israel’s obligations under international law and create unnecessary suffering and tension.”

A Facebook page for Ateret Cohanim states: “Ateret Cohanim, also Ateret Yerushalayim, is an Israeli Jewish organization with a yeshiva located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

“It works for the creation of a Jewish majority in the Old City and Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.”