Courts in three countries found the same thing: John Demjanjuk participated in the murder of thousands of Jews at Sobibor.
The former primary teacher, who is from St Kitts, in the eastern Caribbean, was convicted of participating in the murder of a 25-year-old woman eight years ago.
For a man accused of participating in the murder of 29,000 people such an outcome will make a mockery of the proceedings.
It was brought by a Mexican doctor who was abducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration and tried in California on charges of participating in the murder of a federal drug agent.
Close to the end, the stage is given over to Edgar Ray Killen, a former Klansman who was belatedly convicted, two years ago, of participating in the murder of civil-rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964.
Pardoned for this offense, Kirkcaldy participated in the murder of Mary's Italian secretary, David Riccio, in March 1566; nevertheless, he played no part in the murder of Darnley in February 1567.
In 1974, an Auschwitz commander named Willi Sawatzki was put on trial for having participated in the murder of four hundred Hungarian Jewish children, who were pushed into a pit and burned alive.
In the 1980s and '90s, in an effort to infiltrate foreign terrorist organizations, the CIA recruited foreign officials, particularly in Latin America, who had participated in the murder of civilians.
On the stand, a diminutive Rwandan man with gold-rimmed glasses talks in his native language about how he participated in the murder of his neighbors during the ethnic massacres in Rwanda 17 years ago.
