Do the Noahide Laws really protect us from Murder? (Code Green)
This article is "Code Green": Murder
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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