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I am surprised that the crime here would result in the death penalty. Did the man hasve prior convictions?
by ThinkBeat 3y ago
I am surprised that the crime here would result in the death penalty.
Did the man hasve prior convictions?
- michaelmrose 3y agoI don't believe child killing would require prior convictions in order to get the death penalty in Texas.
- throwaway447 3y agoIANAL but it surprises me too. Sounds more like 2nd degree murder. Lack of intention, lack of planing, lack of maliciousness. https://manshoorylaw.com/blog/difference-between-1st-2nd-and-3rd-degree-murders/ https://manshoorylaw.com/blog/difference-between-1st-2nd-and...
- croes 3y ago>Roberson was portrayed by prosecutors as a cold and calculating father who displayed no emotion It seems they have portrayed him as a cold, calculating murderer.
- kaliqt 3y agoOh, of course, that makes all the difference. Upgrade the charges!
- michaelmrose 3y agoSeems to me you are conflating fault and guilt. Second degree murder implies at minimum extreme indifference to human life if not intent to harm whereas he took her to the doctor then the hospital and gave her medicine then deemed medically appropriate and only now known to be harmful. Where are you seeing the extreme indifference to human life?
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> I don't believe child killing would require prior convictions in order to get the death penalty in Texas. Noting here that using 'child killing' in this context loads the term. It unhelpfully stirs intended and unintended deaths together and conflates murder with awful mistakes made by poorly equipped, poorly informed or overpressured parents. Parents who've lost infants after rolling onto them while sleeping - they ought not be lumped together with people who've killed a child thru a planned, horrific act.
- michaelmrose 3y agoCorrect but do bear in mind that he isn't being accused of rolling over while sleeping he is being accused of shaking her to death by battering her little brain a cause of death we now have no reason to believe is accurate.
- autoexec 3y agoTexas has a fetish for murdering prisoners. They'll jump at any chance they can find.