CHAIRPERSON
As to why that was done.  Really, why?  Was his crime so serious that he should be killed?  You see?  Why should it be?  Here is a man, all that they know about him is that he gave a limpet mine to one of the children, one of the boys.  He could have been tried and convicted.  There was evidence of the person to whom he have the mine, to come and say.