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The Death Penalty in Jewish Tradition
Though the Torah prescribed capital punishment for certain crimes, the rabbis
   The Bible prescribes the death penalty for a large number of offences
   the Sabbath. But the question of capital punishment in actual practice
   According to the Mishnah (Sanhedrin 1:4) the death penalty could only
   judges and there were four types of death penalty (Sanhedrin 7:1):
   comes from a time when the right to impose the death penalty had been
   courts to the death penalty ceased around the year 30 BCE; according to
   The Bible prescribes the death penalty for a large number of offences
   the Sabbath. But the question of capital punishment in actual practice
   According to the Mishnah (Sanhedrin 1:4) the death penalty could only
   judges and there were four types of death penalty (Sanhedrin 7:1):
   comes from a time when the right to impose the death penalty had been
   courts to the death penalty ceased around the year 30 BCE; according to
   mentioned could not simply have said that capital punishment was wrong.
   power to impose the death penalty and Rabbi Akiba and Rabbi Tarfon
   to inflict the death penalty fell into abeyance in any event this
   sense it was felt to the good that the death penalty could no longer
   death penalty virtually impossible. In practice it became illegal for a
   advent of the Messiah it is illegal to impose the death penalty for any
   Knesset, did debate whether or not to retain the death penalty as in
   eventually decided to abolish capital punishment entirely except for