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Hypothetical question

Schadenfroh

Schadenfroh

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My friend wanted me to ask this on here.

If a man is layed up on a table, ready to be letally injected, he is sentanced to death and is scheduled to be executed within the hour, no chance of appeals, its all over, he is going to die. Lets say, a family member of one of the people he killed walks in right before they give him the injection and caps him in the head with a .45. The guy dies from the gunshot wound and did not get injected cause he was already dead. Would the person that shot him be charged with murder?
 
Originally posted by: yobarman
A.) why would someone do that?

B.) How is a family member going to sneak into a max security prison with a gun?
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i was thinking the same thing.. but since he said hypothetical i let it slide.
 
for the same reason that they will put a guy on death row on a suicide watch...kinda dumb is you ask me...

who cares how the dude dies...but i guess the prison needs to do it or something...
 
Basically the paradox sorta shows how irrational the process is. Outside of the ludicrous act of capital punishment
all of the responsibilites of society have to be maintained meticulously up to the point at which the most absurd thing
happens, that being the killing of the offender. Take such things for example, the fact that the victim's family member would be prosecuted as if the prisioner was just a normal citizen, the suicide watch, last request, prayers, various civilities bestowed on the criminal offender, up the point of swabbing the area of injection with antiseptic. I know there are logistics and various other practicalites and technicalites that have to be accounted for especially if those civilities aren't followed and the inmate were to live through the execution, the mandate against cruel and unusual punishment. Anway the idea being that capital punishment is such a gaping hole in the fabric of society that all the stragling threads have to be meticulously accounted for in order to minimize some cosmic karma or something.

Anyway that's just some weird rant.
~bulls
 
The idea behind our messed up laws is this: it is wrong for a person to commit murder (except in self defense and war which don't apply to this situation); but in extreme cases a state can execute someone. Your hypothetical situation has a person doing the killing, not the state. Thus it is defined as murder in our messed up law system. If the execution would have proceeded, then it would have been the state doing the killing, not a person (yes someone does the injection but our laws say that that person was forced by the state to do it and thus the person isn't responsible).
 
Hypothetical answer:

Yes, the person would be charged with and prosecuted for murder. Also, you would be charged as an accomplice for starting the thread that put all of these events into motion.
 
Murder.


Okay, hypothetically, *AFTER* they've inserted the IV and started the lethal injection machine (there are several components and a machine switches them automatically).... THEN the person gets shot before the injection's effects take hold... then what?
 
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