Do the Noahide Laws really protect us from Murder? (Code Green)

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This article is "Code Green": Murder

Do the Noahide Laws protect us from murder? Not exactly. The Noahide Laws are found in the Talmudic folios of Sanhedrin 56a–57b and beyond. In direct relation to the Noahide Laws, the Talmud states that a non-Jew who kills another non-Jew or a Jew is liable to the death penalty. However, if a Jew kills a non-Jew, there is no death penalty. This sentiment is echoed by the Jewish law compiler Maimonides. Noahide apologists state that these passages do not make the murder of non-Jews by Jews legal; however, there is no punishment for the crime in this world.
In addition, the laws on murder are less stringent for Jews than they are for non-Jews. The following offenses would subject a non-Jew to the death penalty, but not a Jew: killing a child in the womb, killing a person whose life is despaired of ("terefah"), indirect murder (e.g., starving someone to death), and killing in self-defense. Also, if a non-Jew kills a non-Jew, they can escape justice by converting to Judaism, but they cannot do this if they killed a Jew.
The following quotes prove what we have stated here. The Noahide Laws are legalistic and create all kinds of loopholes for the murder of non-Jews by Jews, while giving Jews special protections against accusations of murder. The Noahide Laws do not prevent murder.

No death penalty for Jew who kills a non-Jew (Talmud)

But where a penalty is incurred, it is explicitly stated, for the commencing clause teaches: ‘For murder, whether of a Cuthean by a Cuthean, or of an Israelite by a Cuthean, punishment is incurred; but of a Cuthean by an Israelite, there is no death penalty’?[36] – 1962 Soncino Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57a



Maimonides: no death  penalty for a Jew who kills a non-Jew 

Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Rotze'ach 2:11 and the commentary of R. Yosef Karo, Kessef Mishneh



A Jew who killed a righteous gentile is not executed in a court of law as it says (Exodus 21:14) "If a man shall act intentionall against his fellow..." [and a gentile is not considered a fellow] and even more so that he is not executed for killing an unrighteous gentile. 
- Gil Student, "Killing Gentiles Is Forbidden" Retrieved 05/35/2020 from 
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/student/racism/talmud14.html


Murder laws are less stringent for Jews.  

In the case of murder, if the Noachid slay a child in its mother's womb, or kill a person whose life is despaired of ("ṭerefah"), or if he cause the death of a person by starving him or by putting him before a lion so that he can not escape, or if he slay a man in self-defense, the Noachid is guilty of murder and must pay the death-penalty, although under the same circumstances an Israelite would not be executed. 

- Laws Noachian, 1906 Jewish Encylopedia, https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9679-laws-noachian


Can escape for murder of a Gentile but not a Jew

A Noachid who slays another Noachid, or worships idols, or blasphemes, or has illicit connection with the wife of another Noachid, and then becomes a proselyte, is free from punishment. If, however, he has killed an Israelite, or has had illicit connection with the wife of an Israelite, and then becomes a proselyte, he must submit to the punishment that is inflicted upon an Israelite found guilty of such a transgression

- Laws Noachian, 1906 Jewish Encylopedia, https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9679-laws-noachian


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