Once, again, a later graf

Interesting how the later grafs of some stories contain the most illuminating information. There's some worries over the Palestinian Authority (such as it is) re-imposing the death penalty. Questions of whether this would hurt their bid for statehood have been raised - although the more pertinent question should be if they have the kind of justice system that can be free enough of error and corruption to avoid executing innocents. I acknowldge a state (or neo-state's) rigt to have or not have a death penalty, but not without any conditions and fairness which I am frankly dubious the so-called governbment in the Palestine areas can give. The penultime paragraph in the story (interesting placement) gives one more cause for concern:

The issue is particularly controversial because about half of the 50 or so Palestinians on death row are convicted of collaborating with Israel.