Lets put it this way. If Chuck says kill "such en such" from his cell and some loon does it. Should the killer be off the hook because chuck told them to? Should Chuck get a extra life sentence for that too?
Able body enablers use their weak minds as a excuse to do wrong. The people who did the crime are more guilty then the one who told them to do it for whatever reason. That Psycho bitch Squeaky deserves her lifetime sentence as hot a killer flower child as she was in 1972. (The crime scene when they murdered the almost to term pregnant Sharon Tate was disgusting, I hope there is a hell just so that bitch and the rest can rot in it)
I think what KDus meant by "coercion" was like holding a gun to your little girls head and forcing you to kill, or something like that. I agree that is a different animal and the baby threaten-er is the murderer in that instance. I believe this argument covers soldiers as well to a point, they will be shot if they do not follow orders. (At this point I submit to the UCMJ. Soldiers can only go so far before they are responsible for their actions and I generally agree that international law.)
Cops are not soldiers. If they do not follow orders they simply lose their jobs.
If some twit orders you to do something horrible and you do it, you are the guilty one- not the cowardly lunatic you didn't kill instead. I would have released Hitler (and when he was hunted down and shot would have put little to no effort into finding the perpetrator, I like those fucks to die like Mussolini or Qaddafi, I had to rub one out when I saw the Qaddafi death videos) and hanged every single cop who helped arrest the Jews, had I been the one to decide after WW2. Most of the murderers got off BTW, they even got credit for their retirement for the years when they were a Nazi bureaucrat.
We wouldn't have all these kingshit cops right now had that happened. Psycho's trying to run the world get hanged all the time they just come back.
If People understood they would be held accountable if they followed evil orders, they would give it a bit of thought.
Lunatics who give stupid evil orders should be laughed at and spit on like the human jokes they are.