{"id":73569,"date":"2026-05-15T12:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/us-justice-department-to-seek-death-penalty-for-man-charged-with-killing-two-israeli-embassy-staffers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:57:35","slug":"us-justice-department-to-seek-death-penalty-for-man-charged-with-killing-two-israeli-embassy-staffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/us-justice-department-to-seek-death-penalty-for-man-charged-with-killing-two-israeli-embassy-staffers\/","title":{"rendered":"US justice department to seek death penalty for man charged with killing two Israeli embassy staffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors have described fatal shooting outside of DC\u2019s Capital Jewish Museum last year as calculated and planned<\/p>\n<p>The US justice department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/22\/two-israeli-embassy-staff-shot-dead-near-washington-dc-jewish-museum-homeland-security-secretary\">fatally shooting<\/a> two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum, prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Elias Rodriguez faces federal hate crime and murder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/22\/israeli-embassy-staff-shooting-washington-dc\">charges<\/a> in the killings of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/22\/israeli-embassy-staff-shooting-yaron-lischinsky-sarah-milgrim\">Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim<\/a> as they left an event at the museum last May. Rodriguez shouted \u201cfree Palestine\u201d during the shooting and later told police, \u201cI did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,\u201d according to his indictment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/doj-death-penalty-israeli-embassy-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors have described fatal shooting outside of DC\u2019s Capital Jewish Museum last year as calculated and planned The US justice department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum, prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday. Elias &#8230; <a title=\"US justice department to seek death penalty for man charged with killing two Israeli embassy staffers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/us-justice-department-to-seek-death-penalty-for-man-charged-with-killing-two-israeli-embassy-staffers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US justice department to seek death penalty for man charged with killing two Israeli embassy staffers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}