I should also add that Jewish law makes it extremely difficult to hand down the death penalty. Not only must the act be witnessed by two men, the witnesses must also warn the transgressor of what he is about to do and what will happen to him. If the witnesses did not warn the man, then he may not have truly understood what he did wrong, and the death penalty cannot act as an atonement for his crime. Life is too sacred to throw away, and so the death penalty is extremely difficult to enact.

<sub>Will Eisner's last work - The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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