Reply To: What if the Witnesses Don’t Want to Kill Him?

I think theyv have a responsibility to be witness. Goldilocks, I will explain in English. The Rambam says that in certain situations we force the husband to divorce the wife because this marriage is bad for them. The idea is that person wants to obey and follow the Torah but the yetzer hara, bad inclinatiion, makes him resist. When we physically force him, we knock out the yetzer hara from him and restore his original will. Similarly, the witnesses are physically forced to follow the Torah and being instrumental in killing him by removing the murderer. The Torah on Mount Sinai was given by an act force of threatening to bury them under the mountain applying the same logic.