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Do the Jews believe in the death penalty for murder?
The death penalty for murder is explicit in several places; two examples are Gen.9:6 and Lev.24:17,21. But Rabbinical courts rarely carried out the death penalty (Mishnah Makkos 1:10), and today they aren’t qualified to do so.
