18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. 20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 (NKJV)
Comment:
This commandment is amber because any parent in our society who wanted to do this would not be able to carry it out in the way it is prescribed. But we wonder whether it was actually meant to be more of a deterrent than a punishment, and we also wonder what parent would be prepared to do this anyway.