Second%20temple for Sanhedrin 74:7

מאומד וכו': בדיני נפשות הוא דלא אמדינן הא בדיני ממונות אמדינן כמאן כר' אחא דתניא ר' אחא אומר גמל האוחר בין הגמלים ונמצא גמל הרוג בצידו בידוע שזה הרגו

he who is worthy of decapitation is either delivered to the [gentile] Government<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose mode of execution was then as a rule by the sword: 'handed over' does not mean, by the Jews, but rather, falls into their hands, through some misdeed which attracts their attention. ');">¹²</span> or brigands attack him; he who is worthy of strangulation is either drowned in a river or dies of suffocation?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Now, returning to the subject, the said murderer ought to have met his death by the sword: why then did he die of a bite? ');">¹³</span>

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