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if she confesses she won't be put to death by Beis Din since you need 2 witnesses for that.
and if there are 2 witnesses then she won't be tested by the sota water, hence there are not 2 witnesses.
therefore, she would be saving her life from the water by confessing and would not be executed by beis din.
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The Talmud in tractate Sanhedrin (Yerushalmi 7:4 Bavli 52b) asks this question. Two answers are given:
1) Rav Yoshiya: Since it is unspecified, it must be the easiest (קל) of deaths. (The Bavli explains this means the easiest of the four deaths known through tradition, following the opinion of the Sages (Mishna Sanhedrin 7:1) that strangulation is the ...
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