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November 7, 2012 10:42 pm at 10:42 pm
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Moderator, I think Adams deserves a serious answer, and as he said, he isn’t so learned.
Adams, there are four different modes of capital punishment prescribed in Torah for various serious offenses. However, they can only be carried out when we have a functioning Sanhedrin sitting in Eretz Yisroel. We haven’t had such a Sanhedrin for 2000 years, and we also don’t have the possibility in our time of the full Smicha (ordination) that the rabbis who would have sat on the Sanhedrin would have. So, no capital punishment at all for any reason because no qualified Jewish court.