Please look at this write-up in Reason on the case of the government of Alabama’s murder of an innocent man — okay, well not entirely innocent, but not guilty of murder either.
Paine on War
"It may with reason be said, that in the manner the English nation is represented, it signifies not where this right resides, whether in the Crown, or in the Parliament. War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public...