#14: Is Life Imprisonment Cruel?
Ḥizkuni on Parashat Masei, Bemidbar/Numbers 35:28
Gimme Some Torah #14
The penalty for intentional homicide in the Torah is death. The penalty for negligent or accidental homicide is more complicated. In those days, the family of the victim could be expected to execute vengeance by means of a vigilante, or a go’el hadam. Death, however, is not a just punishment when the killing was…
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