Jewish%20thought for Sanhedrin 80:5

ואכתי מופנה מצד אחד הוא בשלמא הנך תרתי מופנה הוא משום דהוה ליה למכתב אלא עיר הנדחת מאי הוה ליה למכתב הא כתיבא כולהו

Again, idolatry differs from the other two cases, for in them [execution is] by the sword.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XIII, 16, with regard to the condemned city. V. also Deut. XIX, 21, where a false charge of murder seems to be referred to, which is punished by decapitation, which is therefore also the punishment of the Zomemim. This is a milder form of death than stoning, the penalty for idolatry. Cf. infra 49b. ');">⁹</span> Again, witnesses proved <i>Zomemim</i> are unlike the other two cases, since they require a formal warning?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., before conviction is possible but in the case of Zomemim, no previous warning is required. V. Keth. 33a and Rashi's interpretation a.l., which is based on the verse. Ye shall do unto him as he had purposed to do unto his brother. Since then the cases are dissimilar, how could the procedure in all capital cases be learnt from one? ');">¹⁰</span>

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