The object of this precept was to banish inhumanity and barbarism from the chosen people, and also to impress upon them horror even of a just execu…

And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death
This before mentioned, or any other that deserves death, any kind o…

By the law of Moses, the touch of a dead body was defiling. Therefore, dead bodies must not be left hanging, as that would defile the land.