>Finally, theft doesn't carry the death penalty, and the people whose truck was stolen were not in danger. If the thief drew a gun they should have withdrawn.

>Finally, theft doesn't carry the death penalty, and the people whose truck was stolen were not in danger. If the thief drew a gun they should have withdrawn. innocence or guilt isn't determined by applying legal standards to non-judges outside of courthouses, which brings up another point : laws aren't somehow universal to a country, let alone a state. It shouldn't be presumed that a working knowledge of how thing work on average within the United States affords one a working knowledge of how things work in Texas. There were a lot of presumptions made by the victim, agreed on that. It's fortunate that a non-related party wasn't hurt. Personally I wouldn't have risked my life for the pursuit of a stolen vehicle, but I can understand the urge.