In 1950, seven convicted murderers were on death row in Israel.[5] In 1951 the Israeli cabinet again proposed that the death penalty be abolished.[6][7] In 1952, the first death sentence for Nazi war crimes under the Nazi Collaborators' Law was imposed on Yechezkel Ingster, who was convicted of torturing and beating other Jews as a kapo. The court also recommended that the death sentence be commuted; he had lost a leg and suffered from a heart ailment.[8] Ingster served time in jail and was later pardoned but died shortly after he was released.[9] In 1953, another death sentence for murder was imposed. It was not carried out, and the convicted murderer received a presidential pardon six years later.[10]