I believe this case was for cases happening "outside of the law". If you kill someone while exercising an (unjust as may be) law, you are ok, while if you're no

I believe this case was for cases happening "outside of the law". If you kill someone while exercising an (unjust as may be) law, you are ok, while if you're not than you can still get punished. This seems similar to the case if Erich Priebke[0] and Herbert Kappler[1], nazi officials who were responsible for the execution of 335 italian civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack where 33 germans had been killed. The people who were killed were unrelated to the attack, and there was a standing order to kill 10 italian for each german so this was "correct" in some sense. But the extra 5 (or 15, there is some discrepancy) were unlawful, and the germans were condemned for them after the war. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Priebke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Priebke [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kappler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kappler