It should be noted that, according to Deuteronomy, the dead body of the person executed by stoning was to be "hanged" on a tree to serve as an example to the community, and was to stay there until sunset when it had to be taken down and buried. The important distinction between hanging a cadaver and hanging a living person as a death penalty will come up presently.
Death by burning was pronounced for two kinds of sexual offences: for marrying simultaneously a woman and her mother, and for the adoption of the lifestyle of a prostitute by a priest's daughter.
No doubt because the priestly legislators of the Bible were focused on religion rather than on civic duties, no crimes against the Jewish state or its ruler are dealt with in the Mosaic Law.
After the closure of biblical legislation, new customs developed and are reflected in the literature of the Second Temple era (c. 500 BCE-100 CE), some Dead Sea Scrolls, Flavius Josephus and the Aramaic Targums supplying important sporadic evidence, but for a more systematic presentation of the legal concepts of the rabbis we have to wait until the compilation of tractate Sanhedrin of the Mishnah somewhere around 200 CE.
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