GEN81 … [the Rabbis’] strong conviction of the sanctity of human life, expressed especially in the early chapters of Genesis [this verse, 5:1, 9:6] that we are created in the image of God … is reflected in the Rabbis’ ruling that a man without children of his own was [sic] eligible to judge a capital case, T. Sanhedrin 7:3; B. Sanhedrin 36b; M.T. Laws of Courts (Sanhedrin) 2:3 presumably because his lack of experience in having children makes him insufficiently appreciative of the value of human life. Children bring a renewed sense of the preciousness of life, both that of victim, in the case of someone accused of murder, and that of the culprit. DORFFLGP 67