<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Is a Jew allowed to serve on a Jury where the defendant in the case is Jewish (or even not Jewish for that matter, if the punishments for a crime were beyond the Jewish pale (say cutting off a limb for stealing))?</div><div>If for example, the death penalty is at stake, and Jewish law would say one needs hatraah and 2 witnesses in order to execute someone Jewish, but the non-jewish medina's requirements to execute are much less stringent; is one allowed to serve on the Jury, and then vote (truthfully??) on the case at hand? thus effectively sending another Jew to his potential death (assuming all appeals failed and he lived long enough to be executed......)</div><div><br></div><div>The same would apply to other transgressions - e.g. embezzlement crimes, where USA medina for instance would put someone
in jail, while torah law would probably just impose a knas. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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