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Josh Shapiro (Courtesy of Commonwealth Media Services)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About two weeks ago, on the Sabbath that began on Feb. 17 and ended on Feb. 18, religious Jews read Parshat Mishpatim. The Torah portion lays out God\u2019s \u201cCovenant Code,\u201d or a series of laws outlining just punishments for serious crimes. Many times over, God makes one detail clear.<\/p>\n

The death penalty is just.<\/p>\n

It is just against \u201cone who strikes a man so that he dies,\u201d against one who \u201cdeliberately plots against his friend to slay him\u201d and against \u201cone who strikes his father or his mother,\u201d among other types of offenders.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is a fatality, you shall give a life for a life,\u201d the text reads. \u201cAn eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot, a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a religious Jew who uses his faith as part of his political identity, is rejecting that principle. On Feb. 16 at the Mosaic Community Church in West Philadelphia, the longtime Montgomery County resident announced that he would not sign any execution warrants during his term. He also called on the Pennsylvania General Assembly to abolish the death penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a fundamental statement of morality. Of what\u2019s right and wrong,\u201d he told the church audience.<\/p>\n

But it was not a fundamental statement of Jewish law, according to a couple of local Orthodox rabbis. Rabbi Isaac Leizerowski of Congregation Beth Midrash HaRav B\u2019Nai Jacob in Philadelphia and Rabbi Yonah Gross of Congregation Beth Hamedrosh in Wynnewood both argued that the Torah supports the death penalty.<\/p>\n

Leizerowski explained that, in the Torah, the death penalty is not a punishment for a sin. It is \u201can atonement on the soul of the sinner.\u201d Citing Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a foremost scholar of Jewish law in the 20th century, Gross said that capital punishment helps us recognize \u201chow stringent the prohibition is\u201d on killing someone. The death penalty is just, according to Gross. But to impose it is \u201can indictment of the generation in some ways more than the perpetrator,\u201d he said. The generation was \u201cnot strong enough in setting up the guardrails that would keep anybody from violating that prohibition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the sign of a civilization in decay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Capital punishment was perhaps never more justified than in the case of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter in 2018. Even Shapiro, then the state\u2019s attorney general, believed so at the time, he said in his Feb. 16 speech. As the governor put it, the shooter killed 11 praying Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue complex, the deadliest act of antisemitism in American history. Yet it was the family members of those victims who convinced Shapiro that the killer did not deserve the death penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat moved me,\u201d the governor said, although many family members have since said that they support the death penalty.<\/p>\n

But in that case, it probably would have been a just punishment. As Jews, Gross explained, we assume that \u201cthe Torah is eternal.\u201d Therefore, if you have to indict the generation by using capital punishment, you do. He said he is uncomfortable with removing it entirely.<\/p>\n

But while it may have been just under Jewish law to put the Pittsburgh shooter to death, that is not always the case. A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article applauding the governor\u2019s decision mentioned that 10 Pennsylvania death row prisoners and 185 death row prisoners nationwide have been exonerated since 1973. If even one of them had faced the death penalty, it would have been a moral failing beyond that of letting a killer stay alive, according to Leizerowski, citing the great Jewish philosopher Maimonides.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetter that 1,000 murderers be set free than one innocent man be put to death. And that is our approach to this,\u201d the rabbi said. \u201cOnly with the greatest judicious eye would we use the death penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe system is fallible, and the outcome is irreversible,\u201d Shapiro said during his speech.<\/p>\n

It is also not the job of a politician to consider capital punishment from the perspective of Jewish law, according to Leizerowski. The United States is a secular society that does not view the death penalty as a matter of redeeming the soul, he explained. Therefore, it is only Shapiro\u2019s job to think of it from a practical perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Josh Shapiro speaks of abolishing the death penalty, then we have to see, is the death penalty indeed a deterrent which in some way would benefit society in lessening crime?\u201d Leizerowski asked.<\/p>\n

The charges that alleged Tree of Life shooter Robert G. Bowers faces are federal and outside of Shapiro\u2019s jurisdiction, meaning the death penalty is still on the table in the trial slated to start in April. \u25a0<\/p>\n

jsaffren@midatlanticmedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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