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According to Jewish law, carrying out the death penalty is not only performed out of a sense of protecting the community by removing a dangerous person from its midst, but also the fulfillment of a Torah obligation incumbent upon the beit din, and like all mitzvot it has many requirements and details. Thus this chapter covers such topics as the location where the punishment will be carried out, the means by which it will be carried out, upon whom is it incumbent to carry out the punishment and so forth…
Once convicted of stoning, there were a number of processes instituted in order to allow for a chance that new evidence may be brought forward to acquit.
A whole section of the gemara about Yeshu the Nazarene was censored and does not appear in the standard printed edition of the gemara.
We explore these missing passages today and tomorrow.