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Had Jesus been tried, convicted and executed by the Jews would he have been crucified?
He would not. Crucifixion was a mode of punishment never employed by the Jews. Had the Jews executed him he would have been stoned.
It is impliedly stated in the Synoptics, and expressly stated in John, that the Sanhedrim’s jurisdiction over capital crimes had ceased. “It is not lawful for us to put any man to death” ([xviii, 31]). The Sanhedrim’s authority ceased in 30 A. D., and it is generally claimed by Christians that the crucifixion occurred from one to five years after this time.