Questions pertaining to capital-punishment according to Jewish law.
Questions tagged [capital-punishment]
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Does Talmud introduce death penalties not mentioned in the Torah?
Does the Mishna or Gemara introduce any sin as liable for the death penalty, not mentioned in the Torah?
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Why wasn't Reish Lakish punished for his crimes as a bandit?
Rabbi Shimon Bar Lakish is known to have been a bandit before repenting and becoming a Rabbi.
Banditry involves thievery and violence.
Would the Sanhedrin/Beis Hamidrash have an obligation to flog or execute him for these crimes? For simplicity,…
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Are we still obligated to do capital punishment for Karet?
According to Halacha and the Torah, are we still obligated to do capital punishment like stoning people for sins like breaking Shabbat? Is this rule kind of swept under the rug or is there a reason why we don't do this?
Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya…
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Punishments for certain ervahs
This table below is from a chumash from the parsha Acharei.
It is shown that a union with a sister is punished by lashes, if it was intentional plus witnessed plus a warning. I think the punishment should be burning too.
It also says that a union…
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Arguments for the abolishment of death penalty
I read that Judaism has stopped executing the death penalty foreseen in the Law.(1).
It seems that the Sanhedrin stopped executing the death penalty not out of a free decision but because it was imposed by the Romans to be the only authority to…
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