Did the Hebrew people actually carry out any of the harsh punishments described in Leviticus ?

yes. And the milder ones, too.

Another "question" with a thinly veiled anti semitic tone. You're about as transparent as Saran Wrap. That 1/2 of 1% of the worlds population really bothers you, don't they?

Considering the violence of Egyptian cults the Hebrews had been forced into, it was necessary to eliminate that murderous nonsense by any method that would work.  Many of those cults used poison and terrorist attacks the way I hear.  It makes sense. 

Stoning people who insisted on using poison as a terror weapon would make them much more civilized on the whole.  Of course, atheists like Physicalist-JH approve of violence and encourage terrorist attacks, so you know how evil atheists really are.

The law protects these corrupters of little children for some reason I cannot fathom, but if we could stone these people then we'd have a lot less violence overall. 

Besides that, how can we tell that Physicalist isn't always stoned out of his mind anyhow?  He certainly adores illegal drugs and makes lots of dirty money selling those illegal drugs to minors.

That sort of law is draconian to be sure but it is much more gentle than allowing athests like Physicalist to control your children via a supply of illegal drugs. 

I love these dopes that accuse one of being anti-semitic for simply asking a serious question. I have not read much actual history of the hebrew people, other than what is described in the Bible and I didn't think they actually carried out any of the cruel punishments described in Leviticus. Maybe I'm just a bit naive but I never saw the hebrew people as being that cruel.