Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
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!


1 thru 3 are "heat of the moment". # 4 is coldly premeditated.
Thanks for answering.