Sharia alert from Memri, with thanks to Rebecca Bynum:
Recently, a number of leading Palestinian officials announced the PA’s intention to carry out pending death sentences. Northern Gaza Governor Sakhr Bsiso announced that Abu Mazen recently approved [the carrying out of] a number of death sentences. As the Palestinian Justice Minister Farid Al-Jallad explained, “The PA will carry out the death penalty with regard to a number of Palestinians accused of collaboration and passing information to Israel.” Military Justice System Director Saeb Al-Qidwa even announced that “the executions will be carried out by the security apparatuses, under the supervision of the civil and military judicial apparatuses.”…
Abu Mazen’s intention to carry out executions is perceived as an attempt to enforce the rule of law in the PA. Recently, there have been many incidences of blood vengeance in the PA by families of murder victims, because the death sentences were not being carried out and some of the criminals were even walking free instead of being imprisoned….
Ikrima Sabri told the Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida that he saw Abu Mazen’s passing the cases on to him as a reflection of “a desire on the part of the Palestinian leadership to ask for the opinion of the Islamic Shari’a in order to reinforce its legal position, so that innocent people not be punished and so that justice be done…