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<DIV>To bring this back to Avodah relevance, I have never heard of a case in
Torah in which a murderer has been set free because they were
insane. </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=689090716-15072011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>My guess is
if this is true, it would be because of the power of a melech to run a
civil society, I can't imagine how one could give valid hatrah to one who is
incapable of understanding it (iiuc hatrah is a din in the recipient not the
givers -e.g. if the recipient was warned in a language that he did not
understand)<BR>KT<BR>Joel
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