'Death penalty to terrorists law is superfluous'

Lt. Col. (res.) Morris Hirsch, who until last year headed the military prosecution in Judea and Samaria, told Arutz Sheva on Thursday that the bill to impose death penalty on terrorists is superfluous.

"I do not understand this law. Already today the political echelon is authorized to instruct the military prosecution to ask for the death penalty," Hirsch noted, adding that after the enactment of the law, it will not be possible to demand the death penalty without a directive from the political echelon.