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PALESTINE: HAMAS EXECUTES THREE FOR MURDER
July 17, 2012: the Hamas government in Gaza executed three men convicted of murder, the Interior Ministry said. "Based on religious law and our religion and what is stipulated in Palestinian law...
three men convicted of intentional murder were executed on Tuesday morning in accordance with a court order sentencing them to death by hanging after their conviction," the Hamas Interior Ministry said in a statement.
It identified the executed men only by their initials and said it had offered the families of the victims the opportunity to seek "blood money" – a compensation payment from the convicted.
"But the families of the victims demanded the punishment be carried out," the statement said. According to information available to Palestinian Center for Human Rights, the Ministry of Interior in Gaza executed: N. J. D., who was convicted by the Gaza Court of First Instance on 28 April 2011, and whose sentence was confirmed by the Court of Appeal on 15 June 2011 and by the Court of Cassation on 13 May 2012; F. T. W., who was convicted by the Gaza Court of First Instance on 29 December 2010, and whose sentence was confirmed by the Court of Appeal on 07 December and by the Court of Cassation on 21 May 2012 (this is probably Faiez Talab Naser ak-Wahidy, found guilty of killing his female cousin Arij Zaharan a-Wahidi in December 2004); H. H. H., who was convicted by the Gaza Court of First Instance on 12 April 2011, and whose sentence was confirmed by the Court of Appeal on 04 December 2011 and by the Court of Cassation on 26 April 2012. (Sources: AFP; PCHR; 17/07/2012)
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