Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 12:19

19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.

That is judicially; proceeding against them for the escape of St. Peter.

They were sentenced to be led away; and 'tis most probably thought, unto the place of execution. The instruments in persecution, God many times meets with in this world; and sometimes by the persecutors themselves.