They could use some Talmud scholars in Texas

[rightcoaster]

It's funny that these conditions were put in place by people with better moral standards than the writers of the bible.

One is that the person must be warned. Well if they've read the bible, they were warned. I'm pretty sure the bible is ok with relative killing each other.

That's the way it goes. The moderately religious are more compassionate than the strictly religious, but they have to jump through some hoops to convince themselves that they are religious.

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The Orthodox, ultra-Orthodox, and other variant flavors of Jewish orthodoxy are not what I would call moderately religious. There are many dimensions on which they are far from "liberal" or "moderate". There is no automatic correlation between religiosity and either compassion or its lack. And your "moral standards" would need to be put in a list for better comparison. Here you are speaking of only one thing, death penalty. Of course, the same goes for "eye for an eye", which is also not subject to literal enforcement, rather is a basis for measurement of the value of damages.

Today's rabbinic Judaism is descended from the Pharisees of 2nd Temple times, who accepted the "Oral Torah", which is what leads to all these interpretations and reinterpretations. Sort of like our own judicial system, but starting from a very different Constitution.

The Torah literalists who did not accept the "Oral Torah" , I believe included the Sadducees and the Samaritans and Karaites. Maybe they had a more Texas-sized death row. Or maybe they wasted less time in appeals.