Digest of Biblical Civil Law

No sentence carries with it any change in the civil status of the convict's family. Nor is a sentence attended by confiscation of the convict's goods. All his possessions descend to his legal heirs.  Deut. 24:16 provides, "The parents shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the parents; every man shall be put to death for his own sins." 

- Wilhelm Bacher and Lewis N. Dembitz, Capital Punishment,  Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), at http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=128&letter=C.