Avram,
1. See Rabbi J. David Bleich’s article <Capital Punishment in Noahide Law in volume 2 of Contemporary Halachic Problems. it is available online on sefaria.org. You can read Rav Moshe’s teshuva (written afterwards) here.
2. Leo Frank was lynched not executed. In fact, GA Gov. John M. Slaton commuted his sentence.
3. the extent of Ethel Rosenberg’s guilt is still a matter of dispute. However, she could have saved herself by naming names. She chose to be moser nefesh for her false god. Moreover, as she turned her brother David Greenglass into a communist she might have had the din of a mesicha umedicha.
4. Under what, if any, circumstances would you support capital punishment?
5. I find it interesting that liberals are so concerned about people who have rap sheets longer than height but care nothing for unborn babies (and in “enlightened” Belgium and Holland there is already child “euthanasia” but no death penalty for murderers).
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