ROB:”Joseph: Please don’t corrupt the Torah. To say that a jew lighting fires on shabbos gets executed is such corruption of halocho, as you surely know. “
SAM:”Also, learn some Gemara. It’s very hard to actually give the death penalty. You need Hasra’ah and for the person to acknowledge that he received the Hasra’ah then do it anyway.”
I’m not at all following the thread of this argument. I’m just amazed at what gets past here. To say that one who is mechuyav skila is mechuyav skila, is called corrupting the Torah?!? C’mon people, what’s with you. Sam, I thought you knew better. He’s not writing of the actual execution, he’s writing of the chiyuv. Obviously an aveira that carries a CHIYUV misa is something stringent, more severe. A little talmud reading would suffice.