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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zev Sero commented: </span>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“On Micha's remarks it implies that the court can sentence someone to </span>
<blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">death even though the facts might not be true.<br>
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As evidenced by the fact that if the witnesses recant after the verdict, <br>
even if their recantation seems credible we execute the person anyway.”</span>
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<div>What, if anything, does this teach us — about Halacha or morality or the value of human life or anything else? Or perhaps to paraphrase Joel Rich’s question: Is this what God wants?</div>
<div>Joseph<br>
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