Capital Punishment
Special Lecture

Capital punishment is a hotly debated issue in every democratic society and has been so since ancient times. The Talmudic approach was to permit it only under strictly defined circumstances so that in practice, Jews very seldom received the death penalty. Rabbi Wein reviews both Jewish and secular law on this sensitive topic and extends it to some modern-day applications, all of which point toward the Jewish attitude of the ultimate sanctity of life.