An employee gets fired from work. Angry, thelemployee seeks to retaliate by burning the boss's house down while the boss is on vacation. The employee asks an old friend, who owns a gas station, to loan some gasoline so the employee can burn the boss's house down. The old friend agrees and loans the gasoline. The employee then goes to the boss's home and starts a fire. No one is home at the boss's house, but unfortunately, the fire spreads to the next$-$door neighbor's home and burns the neighbor's home to the ground, killing two people who were sleeping inside. The employee and the old friend are both charged with the murder of the two people in the neighbor's home.

What should be the outcome of their trials?