Lebanon abolished the death penalty, but its new amnesty law divides the country

Oneel Bou Saab keeps a photo of her father in his army uniform. Lieutenant George Bou Saab was killed serving in the Lebanese Armed Forces in 2013 during clashes with an extremist group in the southern city of Sidon, and for years his death sat inside a familiar civic story: a soldier who died defending "all of Lebanon," as his daughter puts it, not any one sect or faction. That story cracked open again this August, when parliament passed a sweeping new law that automatically reduces the sentences of people convicted in cases like the one connected to her father's...