Midrash for Sanhedrin 104:17
ולאו קל וחומר הוא קטל עבדא בסייף בר חורין בחנק
it is not from them [the Romans] that we derive the practice. Now we have learnt in another chapter, 'The following are decapitated: A murderer, and the inhabitants of a seduced city.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra 76b. ');"><sup>15</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"that man shall die": the unqualified death penalty in Scripture — strangulation.
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