On Mar. 31, the United Arab Emirates informed the world that it had sentenced to death three people who had taken the life of an Israeli Moldovan rabbi last November, with what the prosecution called “terrorist intention.” After the sentence, the Emirates’s attorney general stressed that the sentences signified how his country will respond to any attempt to “undermine national security and stability.”

The UAE has shown no hesitancy about turning death sentences into executions. In February, it executed Shahzadi Khan, a domestic worker convicted of killing her employers' baby. Just days after Khan was put to death, the UAE carried out two more executions.

Khan’s case was marked by a litany of problems familiar to any observer of America’s death penalty. She claimed that her taped confession had been coerced and she had been left without "adequate representation" during the trial. Her lawyer

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