” she and her boys paid the price of vigilante justice.”
They intended to aid the thief. Screw ‘em. Thieves don’t operate automatously.
People, stealing doesn’t carry the death penalty, what is wrong with you?
“They intended to aid the thief.”
That is NOT in the story on the UK Daily Mail. Perhaps you have other sources. The story says they were on their was to collect a debt in town when they were stopped, tortured and left to die in a case of mistaken identity.