Reply To: Refuting the liberal claims about the tragedy.

IIRC, Rav Ahron Soloveichik z’tz’l held that Noachide Courts are only permitted to administer a death penalty at a time that the Sanhedrin is able to administer a death penalty. When Gov. Pataki was considering reinstating the death penalty, Rav Soloveichik was quoted as saying that if the governor acted on the death penalty, he would be the leader of a “bloody government”.