It is by no means always illegal to kill people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justifiable_homicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justifiable_homicide This as

It is by no means always illegal to kill people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justifiable_homicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justifiable_homicide This assassination meets none of the criteria however. I suspect we'd find an amusing overlap between people who want to exculpate the assassin, and those who are opposed to the state applying the death penalty to convicts. Whether or not the guy had it coming is an opinion, one I'm personally holding off on having until we have more information about it. That means I'm not ruling out thinking so, and harbor hope in any case that it might prompt other health insurance CEOs to consider whether providing better service to their customers might also be in their direct self interest. Then again, I'm not opposed to the death penalty either. But regardless of where one might fall on that question, it's delusional to think that the state will not regard the assassination as first-degree murder, and that a jury would do other than convict in the event that they're persuaded that the defendant is the same person as the one who was caught on video shooting him in the back. That's not what's going to happen.