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Release him. Imagine him and the sheriff going about their work, watching over their shoulders all the time. Maybe the murderer will reform and the two of them will become friends in the end, who knows?

I'd set up a large stockpile that feeds into a small "cookables" stockpile that gives to the kitchens, which then feeds into a "brewables" stockpile that gives to the stills. Since your brewables are the end of the line, that stockpile will always be full -- ensuring that you never run out of seeds; and the extra will be cooked off for meals. The large stockpile I mentioned first is just so you don't have plants withering or rotting because you left them out.

When speaking to a character in the Adventure Mode, the option on the very bottom of the list (press + to scroll down) is "Goodbye."

There you go. Hope it helps.

Pretty much. Your best bet is to set the uniform to replace clothing, and only use exact matches. That way whoever is assigned the uniform is forced to equip the right armor.

The dwarves should strip naked, rush the armor stockpile or forge, and equip what they need

This.

The reason they are only equipping the chainmail is, most likely, that the rest of their outfit is already "full." This page has a tl;dr breakdown of how the game determines what and how much armor/clothing a dwarf can equip, and why. Read up and understand; that will solve most equipment issues you'll ever run into.

I'll save you a little time and address the two main issues here: size/layering and [SHAPED] pieces.

1. Any given body part can only equip a certain amount of apparel, and that amount is also affected by what specific types of clothing are chosen. Just like real life, a DF character can only equip so many shirts, and fewer coats. The dwarven standard outfit (in a vanilla game) includes plenty of space for armor, so that is likely not your problem, but possible. This thread includes some exposition about that specific issue.

2. Any given body part can only equip one [SHAPED] item at a time. High and Low Boots, Greaves and Leggings, Breastplates and Leather Armor, Gauntlets, Helms and Caps are all shaped, including cloth or leather items. This means that if your soldiers are wearing cloth caps, they won't equip a helm unless you set the uniform to "Replace Clothing."

Setting them to Replace Armor will force them to equip only the items they have been assigned through their uniform. They won't include anything else, so make sure you have at least footwear, legwear and something for the torso or they'll get bad thoughts for lacking those clothing items. Or just assign them cloth shoes or whatever until you finish those parts of the uniform.

Have you considered making your Captain of the Guard a very weak dwarf and assigning him a training sword?

Or would even that be a recipe for genocide?

This happened in a game without any armor modding:



But I wonder, would this be possible to achieve consistently by giving helmets [LBSTEP:MAX]? SCIENCE TIME

This is a known bug.