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

“ Of course, if they were *all* Heilige Yirei Shomayim,” there would be no need for a Beis Din of 23 to exist in the first place.”

Chazal tell us that Tzlafchad was a Tzadik and Yorei Shomayim.

So, apparently, your assumption is not correct.