Honestly, he probably saved their lives. Neither one of those asswipes have the sense to survive any length of time in prison. If you took both of their brains and put them together, and converted their brain matter to nitroglycerin, there wouldn't be enough there to blow either one of their noses.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake