How much trouble would you get in for killing a guy about to get legally executed?

[Alex]

lol interesting question...

 

[knyghtbyte]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: Mwilding
If a guy with terminal cancer takes 100 sleeping pills and jumps off a high-rise tower and you shoot him in the head just before he lands you will still get convicted of murder and face the prescribed penalities of your state - especially if you are black and live in Texas...

Intriguing theory, buuut... isn't a criminal conviction, "beyond a shadow of a doubt"? Wouldn't the examination of death have to happen after the person landed? How would the state be able to prove that it was *you* who did the deed, when the body is in pieces over a 100m radius from the fall? Here's another one - what if the person, died of a heart-attack, just after jumping, and was dead a split-second before you decided to use the rapidly-decending corpse for target-practice? Is target practice with freshly-dead humans against the law in the state of texas?

Ok, how about another scenario - you're on the ground, and you whip out your concealed sawed-off shotgun out of your waistband, and blast the rapidly-approaching corpse falling from above you, in order to save your own life. Now what would the verdict be?

love that last bit, both me and my manager laughed out loud at it..

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: xaeniac
Probably life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Unless you could claim the insanity plea....