Eleazar asked a question
The death penalty by a person – by a court of law during the trial. Given that a court of law knows that every year there are 1000 people who need to be put to death, but their knowledge is not based on witnesses. For example, according to their understanding. Or as we know today, according to experts, university people, for example – statisticians. I asked, then, whether a court of law should strive to find witnesses through whom these people will be put to death. And I will refine my question, if the law and order prevail as expected in the diaspora of the country and the Torah traditions are excellent, if experts reveal to the ears of a court of law that there are supposedly about a thousand people who deserve death for abominable prohibitions that the Torah commanded to be put to death. Should a court of law see a failure in not being able to put these 1000 people to death. However, 500 of them did succeed, since they were witnesses who met all the rules specified in Tractate Sanhedrin. But the rest of the thousand were not. I end here with the verse, “And the blood will not be atoned for, for a people whose blood was shed.” Rabbi Akiva’s opinion is that a court that kills once every 70 years is a deadly court.
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