Explanation: Bill is severely injured and dies in the hospital before being able to reveal anything he knows about the murders. After the bombing, Governor Jack C. Walton of Oklahoma sends his top state investigator, Herman Fox Davis, to Osage County so that he can solve the murder cases.
Like lambs to a slaughter suggests that the slugs (much like the sheep) have no idea that death comes soon, for the slugs either the birds will get them, they get dried out(?), or they risk being found by a human. For the sheep, they’re happy because they have an unlimited supply of food and they’re happy, but they’re being led to their deaths.
Be becuase infinitives always have “to” in them