{"id":1089,"date":"2026-05-15T18:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:40:04","slug":"us-justice-department-to-seek-death-penalty-for-man-charged-with-killing-two-israeli-embassy-staffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1089","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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}