“Under the Talmud, no man could be put to death on his own testimony: ‘No man may call himself a wrongdoer,’ especially in a capital case … .
“ … In the biblical period the normal two-witness rule could be overridden in the special case of a self-incriminating confession, if the confession occurred outside of court, or if God’s will was evidenced in the matter by ordeal, lots, or otherwise in the detection of the offender, and if corroborating physical evidence of the crime could be produced.
“Seantum’s self-incriminating confession satisfies all three of these requirements” (Welch, “Case of an Unobserved Murder,” 243–44).