death penalty
Jun 27 2009, Marco Villa

This killer thug will receive a slap on the wrist:

The Jewish youth, Vitaly Sayenko, 18, made a decision to kill Karuwani for no other reason than that Karuwani was an Arab, the prosecution said.

In the Arab-Israeli town of Nazareth...

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