The unique fate of being twice condemned to death for murder in two different cases came to one of ten Arabs charged with the murder of five Jewish students in Hebron during last Summer’s riots. While nine other Arabs, held for the same crime were released, the tenth was sentenced to death. He had previously been sentenced to death in the Kastel case.
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