Question

A follow-up question [I couldn’t manage to write in the comments—is there some problem?]
Regarding an apikores who shows contempt for Torah scholars, what does the Rabbi think his status is today? Does the Rabbi hold that his status is like that of a secular person, and therefore he is coerced / not acting of his own free will, in accordance with the Rabbi’s well-known view? Or since he believes in the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, would he then be liable to the death penalty?