sanhedrin

The people who *called* for the punishment were largely the Jewish Sanhedrin and people of the crowds.

A quick web search reveals that it is from the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 43a.

The Jewish Sanhedrin used it 2000-3000 years ago, starting from the most junior people.

In fact, this way was so effective that the Sanhedrin decided that they had to get rid of him, intent on murdering him.

However, in order to be part of the sanhedrin you need to be ordained by another member of the sanhedrin and at some point (unknown exactly when, possibly around the year 400) this lineage was lost.

Consider that we haven't had a Sanhedrin (supreme Jewish council) for a while, which makes a bunch of Jewish law unenforceable.

Maybe this is the wrong forum for this, but the Talmud says that A Sanhedrin that executes someone more than once every 70 years is bloody.

So how did the Sanhedrin solve this issue?

Instead of lighting a fire, the Sanhedrin would send messengers to spread the word to nearby cities, and each city would send their own messengers to their neighbors.

He wasn't exactly best friends with the sanhedrin (sp?, the powerful self-serving hypocritical religious leaders) in His day either; they turned him over to the Romans to be crucified after all.

As for Judaism, Rabbinic tradition understands the Torah's system of capital punishment to not be in effect for the past approximately 2,000 years, in the absence of a Sanhedrin and Temple.

If you think about it then, you could simply limit the frequency of executions, and scale it up or down per capita (depending on the number of people the Sanhedrin had jurisdiction over when it existed).

The important bit is that an individual rabbi cannot overturn anything; the power comes from a legislative entity called "The Sanhedrin".

In the Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a says "Anyone who saves a life is as if he saved an entire world." and anyone who destroys a life is considered to have destroyed an entire world.

The Tosefta, an important supplement to the Mishnah,[5] also states: "Righteous people of all nations have a share in the world to come" (Sanhedrin 105a).

An embryo in his mother’s womb,” (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57b).

There is no Sanhedrin, the only body that could correct this without a schism.

Caesar and Rome, the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin; an unreasonable man at the head of an unreasonable government, and unreasonable men at the head of an unreasonable assembly.

Instead, he laid low until Herod's death, aiming to rightfully claim the throne, but was instead executed to maintain Roman rule over Judea with the consent of the Sanhedrin.