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9.04.2008

Capital punishment, or indeed any other punishment, must not be inflicted, except on the most trustworthy and convincing testimony of at least two qualified eye-witnesses to the crime (Deut. 17:6).
- Wilhelm Bacher and Lewis N. Dembitz, Capital Punishment,  Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), at http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=128&letter=C.