The flight plummeted into a busy area, killing 241 passengers and 19 others on the ground while incinerating everything around it.

That means he does not have an incentive to agree on details before the Knesset goes into recess on 27 July, says Sky's military analyst Prof Michael Clarke.

The death penalty was banned in the UK under all circumstances in 1998. Since then, the debate about capital punishment has come up after particularly extreme crimes like the Southport killings.