Bible, the religious book of Jews prescribed all the laws that are followed by the jewish community. In Jew community the death penalty is based on the reading of bible and also on the oral laws that are seen through Judaism’s corpus of oral law. These oral laws were amended into phases firstly around 200CE in the Mishnah and later around 550CE in the Talmud.
Study of these shows that the death penalty was only used in extremely rare cases. According to rabbinic law, the essence for the death penalty was the presence of two eye witnesses to the crime. No one should be testifying against himself. Effectively death penalty is out of existence. Today, only one country of Jew community uses death penalty i.e. Israel.
In Conservative Judaism the
Study of these shows that the death penalty was only used in extremely rare cases. According to rabbinic law, the essence for the death penalty was the presence of two eye witnesses to the crime. No one should be testifying against himself. Effectively death penalty is out of existence. Today, only one country of Jew community uses death penalty i.e. Israel.
In Conservative Judaism the