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Our Gemara brings a baraita where we find that among the list of transgressions for which a person is liable to receive a death penalty is someone who is not a kohen who eats teruma – the tithe set aside for the kohanim. In this case, the discussion is not about capital punishment but about mitah bi-yedei Shamayim – a Heavenly death sentence.
Rav rules that in such a case the penalty is malkot – lashes.
We explore death by the hands of heaven and Jonathan Colan’s essay on
The Supreme Court's Talmudic Debate on the Meanings of Guilt, Innocence, and Finality.