But Mary expresses sympathy for the impossible situation of training young men how "to murder [in combat]" but then asking them to treat the dead respectfully.
The difficulty of proving a murder in active combat is also becoming increasingly clear.
As a result, the global coverage of the trial has focused on whether it was appropriate to charge a former child soldier with murder for fighting against military forces in combat, and on the interrogations he underwent as a teenager.
Experts on military law said the difficulty in prosecuting the marines for murder is understandable, given that action taken in combat is often given immunity under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
In combat, there is a difference between overreaction and murder.
Colombia's security forces have been accused of widespread atrocities in their long fight against left-wing rebels, including the murder of civilians who are later passed of as guerrillas killed in combat.
These include the army murdering innocent civilians and disguising their corpses as guerrillas killed in combat.
The concept of murder during a combat operation simply wasn't raised.
In Rupert Holmes's adaptation of John Grisham's courtroom drama, Carl Lee Hailey John Douglas Thompsonn) dresses in combat fatigues, steals into a Mississippi courthouse, and murders two handcuffed men with a machine gun.
Ordnungspolizei units confiscated harvests, forced local populations into slave labour in the Reich, escorted trains bound for the death camps, participated in combat operations, brutally suppressed suspected partisan activity, and murdered an estimated one million people, mostly Jews in the east.
The division had a strength of 6,500 men at the time of its creation and was better known for murdering, raping, and looting in predominantly Serbian areas than for participating in combat operations on behalf of the German war effort.
