Dudley was the captain

Why is that, Dudley?

Dudley and Stephens went to trial.

Let's hear first from the defense of Dudley and Stephens.

Dudley proposed a lottery suppose that they had agreed to a lottery then how many would then say it was all right.

Dudley offered a prayer he told a the boy his time had come and he killed him with a pen knife stabbing him in the jugular vein.

Dudley describes their rescue in his diary with staggering euphemism, quote on the twenty fourth day as we were having our breakfast a ship appeared at last.

Dudley in Stephens and the paper said if they weren't motivated by affection and concern for their loved ones at home and dependents, surely they wouldn't have done this.

If that dolt of a cousin of yours, Dudley, gives you any grief you could always threaten him with a nice pair of ears to go with his tail.

The next day there was still no ship in sight so a Dudley told Brooks to avert his gaze and he motioned to Stephens that the boy Parker had better be killed.

let's begin to test it and to examine it by turning to another case another story but this time not a hypothetical story, a real life story the case of the Queen versus Dudley and Stephens.

I'm wondering if Dudley and Stephens had asked for Richard Parker's consent in, you know, dying, if that would would that exonerate them from an act of murder, and if so is that still morally justifiable?

Dudley is there, pen knife in hand, but instead of the prayer or before the prayer, he says, Parker, would you mind we're desperately hungry, as Marcus empathizes with we're desperately hungry you're not going to last long anyhow, you can be a martyr, would you be a martyr how about it Parker?

Here's what they did by now the cabin boy Parker is lying at the bottom of the lifeboat in a corner because he had drunk sea water against the advice of the others and he had become ill and he appeared to be dying so on the nineteenth day Dudley, the captain, suggested that they should all have a lottery.