Your " life to mean life " is of no consolation to the families of victims of murder. It's THEY who suffer the life sentence !!
As for " taking the life of someone terminally ill " is an entirely different approach as their life is already taken by whatever ails them. It's a case of freeing the patient from the chronic pain they're suffering, or would you rather them be left screaming and dying in agony in front of you ?
The lack of trust falls within the visibly shoddy work of EP and forensics alike plus refusals of anything that showed Jeremy in a good light, such as the many testimonials by those who knew/know him. Handwritten statements which were altered or edited out. All documented.
I'm not sure it's the reasons for our thinking that's in question. One of us thinks they COULD kill. The other is convinced they couldn't. I suspect there are thing to be said, both for and against, each mindset.
I agree that EP didn't do their finest work but for the first few hours they were working under Jeremy's sole direction and he was directing them towards what he wanted them to see. IF they later chose to show him as something less that a bereft son, I'd have felt inclined to call it pay-back for wasting their time and making idiots of them, BUT, things had become revealed about his character, within a month, which they hadn't been aware of at the time. Believe me, the didn't HAVE to show him in a bad light. He did every bit of it for himself. I have no idea of who are these miyiads who believe him innocent. Of the numerous -although diminishing numbers- that surround me there is ONE who's unsure. The other -my cousin's co-in law, a vicar- thinks he's probably innocent. I find it strange that there are no others -when you say there are SO many- who think him innocent. In fact my own, but very poor- calculations have the ratio now as being comparable to that of the jury. As for the almost incalculable amount of statements "which were altered or edited out".................? There are alleged to be way too many to make conspiracy believable.