Quoting%20commentary for Sanhedrin 30:7

הארי והזאב כו': אמר ר"ל והוא שהמיתו אבל לא המיתו לא אלמא קסבר יש להן תרבות ויש להן בעלים רבי יוחנן אמר אע"פ שלא המיתו אלמא קסבר אין להם תרבות ואין להם בעלים

and, should you maintain that he is liable to death, is it not written, You shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXXV, 31; and surely, if he is to be executed, he is considered as such. ');">¹³</span> On the contrary, that fact [proves that the text is literal, Thus:] in case of a man's own crime, money is no adequate punishment, only death; whereas, when his beast kills, he can ransom himself with money?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And where there is no offer of a ransom he is to be put to death. And the question — 'perhaps the verse means to indicate capital punishment for the owner' — remains. ');">¹⁴</span>

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