<tdclass="snippet">Though all of the sins are condemned, only five are punished with death: male homosexuality, bestiality committed by either a man or a woman, intercourse with menstruating women, and Onan's withdrawal: capital offenses, Provan says, because all are intentionally sterile forms of sex, wasting the sperm of man or animal. Female homosexuality, conversely, is not punished by death because, though wicked, it doesn't spill semen.</td>
