> what are the legal repercussions for killing someone that's about to die? The example I have heard around this is that if you shoot, and kill, someone who is

> what are the legal repercussions for killing someone that's about to die? The example I have heard around this is that if you shoot, and kill, someone who is currently falling off a building you are still guilty of murder. The reasoning, I believe, is that anything grayer than "if you killed them, you killed them" very quickly devolves into an argument over what "imminent" is.