Commentary for Sanhedrin 99:14

סייף חמור מחנק שכן ניתן לאנשי עיר הנדחת ומאי חומרא שכן ממונם אבד

Slaying is severer than strangling, since thereby the inhabitants of a seducedcity are punished, the severity of whose punishment is attested by the factthat their property is destroyed. On the contrary, is not strangulation severer,being the punishment of one who smites his father or mother, the greaterenormity of whose offence lies in the fact that their honour is assimilatedto that of the Almighty? — Even so the offence against the fundamental tenetof Judaism [which is the crime of the seduced city] is greater.

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