Capital punishment among the Jews : $b a paper read before the New York Board of Jewish Ministers
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Capital punishment among the Jews by David de Sola Pool is a scholarly historical-legal study written in the early 20th century. It examines how Jewish law defined, applied, modified, and ultimately curtailed capital punishment across the Biblical, Second Temple, rabbinic, and medieval periods, with special attention to legal procedures and moral reasoning.
The book first reviews the four rabbinically recognized executions—stoning, burning, beheading, and strangulation—showing how the Rabbis humanized them (e.g., stoning recast as precipitation; burning reduced to strangulation with a token cautery; beheading done by sword at the throat; strangulation preferred for least disfigurement). It then outlines the Bible’s purposes for the death penalty—retribution, deterrence, and expiation—while noting rabbinic efforts to preserve life and dignity. Most of the study traces the dense legal safeguards that made execution virtually unattainable: two unimpeachable witnesses who issued a precise
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