Armor piercing bullets?
Killing trooos in combat is fine. Slaughtering prisoners is not. I guess he could plead he was “just following orders” and he may very well have been a victim of preventative purging by James I.
But that episode with the elopment happened during Elizabeth’s reign and she pardoned him, if i recall.
He was unjustly accused of Main Plot participation, and that's what led to his execution. The fact that he was railroaded regarding having *done his duty* in years before in Ireland was also unjust, not least because no one pulled a hair about it at the time. I'm not sure what you're having a problem with, and am no longer interested, since you're clearly trying to equate him with concentration camp Nazis. What's next? Henry V should have been execuled? Or maybe all those US troops in WWII whom Bill O'Reilly accused of the Malmedy massacre?