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Weird. So why did the comment single out premeditated murder? Getting into a fight and unintentionally/recklessly causing lethal injuries, or unintentionally/r
by pluma 9y ago
Weird. So why did the comment single out premeditated murder?
Getting into a fight and unintentionally/recklessly causing lethal injuries, or unintentionally/recklessly causing a lethal accident to happen wouldn't then normally be called "murder" making the distinction unnecessary?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm not picking on coldtea. This isn't the first time I've seen people be corrected when using "murder" to refer to "first-degree murder".
- danso 9y agoFor starters, there's such a thing as justified homicide, i.e. Self-defense. Voluntary manslaughter covers the situation you describe, in which a suspect kills someone during a fight but can argue that he did not intend for the fight to become lethal. Such as punching someone who then falls and suffers a fatal head injury.
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoI think the distinction is that if you plan to kill someone for months, then you wouldn't plan to do so on a submarine, as that would be a hard place to cover up the act. If however, you're on a submarine and then decide to kill someone in a rage, then it's still murder, but it's not planned far in advance.
- pluma 9y agoI guess "intentionally killing someone in a rage" didn't come to my mind. I can imagine planning to kill someone and then doing it or unintentionally killing someone in a fight/assault. But knowingly killing someone out of the blue never crossed my mind. Not sure what that says about me, if anything.