Rainus -“But to kill him actively or passively on the basis of a confession, it doesn’t seem probable.”
You’re wrong, I think they would put him a Kipa. They used the Kipa for circumstantial evidence. This has nothing to do with a confession. If the cops found the victim in the fridge, that’s enough circumstantial evidence to put him in the Kipa. To mete out justice directly from the Bais Din, then you need Eidim, Hasroh, etc. Kipa was used to show it’s not a Hefker Velt and the actual killing of criminals by Bais Din was very rare, not usually more than once in 70 years. The Torah justice system is much stronger than anything we have nowadays in the US justice system. And all those who keep claiming Anthony’s verdict is Just, have no clue how the Torah looks at it. They claim there are no witnesses or DNA. The Torah only looks at the Goyim having to kill for the other 6 Mitzvos, when the evidence is circumstantial. In other words, all you people who claim Justice was done in the Anthony case, would scream “Unjust, Crazy Verdict”, if a 100 witnesses came forward and said they saw her do it. In the Torah eyes, these 100 witnesses aren’t any different than circumstantial evidence. There is no difference between a 100 or a billion witnesses, none of the testimony is believed. So how could acc. to the Torah a Goyish Court mete out Justice? Only with circumstantial evidence. The witnesses just make it circumstantial. The Anthony case is circumstantial right now, even though there are no witnesses. A circumstantial case means -you don’t know for sure. But this is what the Goy has to mete out justice for. Justice is one of the 7 Mitzvos Bnai Noach. The same was done in Bais Din -if it’s circumstantial -the criminal was put in a Kipa!