Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
Let's go back to an earlier post of yours, where you make the point that being an emo is a choice. Unlike being black, Vietnamese, or a Jew. If you're a member of a hate group, and go out and lynch a person because he's any of the aforementioned, IMO you deserve a worse punishment than if you murder someone under other circumstances or for other motives.

Let's go back to something similar to an earlier GB post as well. Different scenarios:

  • You kill someone you found in bed with your wife.
  • You kill someone who cut in front of you on the freeway.
  • You kill someone because you had a fight in a bar.
  • You kill someone because he's black and you're a KKK or skinhead.

IMO, murderer # 4 deserves a worse punishment than 1-3. All victims are protected by law. But motive decides the severity of the punishment.
My punishments for your list

#1-#4 If premeditated death penalty or life with no parole. If heat of the moment then 18-life if it was unintentional then perhaps a lesser sentence.

Motive isn't the crime!