Maybe this is the wrong forum for this, but the Talmud says that A Sanhedrin that executes someone more than once every 70 years is bloody. If you think about i

Maybe this is the wrong forum for this, but the Talmud says that A Sanhedrin that executes someone more than once every 70 years is bloody. If you think about it then, you could simply limit the frequency of executions, and scale it up or down per capita (depending on the number of people the Sanhedrin had jurisdiction over when it existed).