Taking Part in a Trial

My fellow jurors, we are gathered here today in disagreement on the severity of Rogers responsibility in the murder of Piggy. We have all reached an agreement on the fact that Roger did push the rock that killed Piggy, but some of you are convinced that he should only serve a light sentence while others are not.
This matter is by far the most immoral crime committed on the island, the taking of someone’s life. We are well aware that the hunters were engaged in bloody activates, but those were only preformed on boars—not humans—with the distinct instinctive intention of survival.

However, Piggy’s murder was free-willed and was the end to what started out as bullying. Although the murder of Piggy was not premeditated, it was the sad conclusion to the brutal beating he received at the hands of Roger, Jack Merridew, Maurice, and the subsequent theft of his spectacles, during one of his regular unfortunate asthma attacks. I believe that Rogers’s ferociousness and hatred of Piggy are clearly brought out with the above and that he knowingly and maliciously threw the rock at a clearly blinded and therefore defenseless boy.
The argument that a group/pack mentality was the cause of Piggy’s death is misleading; for although in the special circumstances on the island there was a pack mentality it was neither the pack itself nor more importantly its chief—Jack Merridew—but an individual who did not play a vital role in their activates, that committed murder on his own.

This is a crime—a homicide, and there is a price to be paid with a punishment, that should be harsh enough in order to make others think twice before they act. They should know there will be strong and very painful consequences.
How would it be fair for this young man not to take responsibility for his actions when Piggy’s auntie will never have a nephew to call her own again? How is there a punishment strict enough if we will never have Piggy back?
Gentlemen, Piggy was simply an innocent boy who wanted nothing more than to get rescued and help his peers make the most efficient logical decisions which would increase their chances of survival. In the name of justice, we as civilized English men, should grant him the fate he brought upon himself, by carrying out such a—once again, I repeat—horrible crime.

Maybe Jack Merridew, and all the others, should be charged for aiding and abetting, or in a criminal conspiracy to commit murder with Roger. According to the knowledge, evidence, and what we witnessed and saw with our own eyes; Roger did this alone, and should be granted a very long and unpleasant sentence.