tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post6723040599599818348..comments2024-03-29T05:21:11.278+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Another Odd Judgement…JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-53475680417281096202011-05-30T05:53:40.254+01:002011-05-30T05:53:40.254+01:00"...and that both deserve to be sentenced as ...<i>"...and that both deserve to be sentenced as if they did the deed themselves."</i> <br /><br />Equal sentences would be a little more acceptable.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-18268583765777643712011-05-30T05:27:02.199+01:002011-05-30T05:27:02.199+01:00Heh. But seriously, it's not always about divo...Heh. But seriously, it's not always about divorce is it? People have hired other people to kill for them for all kinds of reasons, both for wanting that person dead and for not doing it personally. Maybe they want to be elsewhere for alibi purposes, maybe they're on remand or something and can't be there, maybe they want an experienced killer and maybe they're just squeamish at the thought of doing ti themselves. When it comes down to it it's like using the contract killer as a weapon, except that as a thinking and reasoning being (yeah, I know, some more than others) we hold the killer responsible for their actions in a way that obviously can't be applied to knives, guns, candlesticks, lead pipes and bits of rope. So I agree with you that the one who contracts out a murder should be sentenced harshly - as harshly as if they did the actual killing themselves I'd say - but I don't see how killing because someone asked you to is any kind of mitigation. The killer could have said no, could have not followed through, could have warned the victim, could have tipped off the police instead, but if they go ahead with the murder instead they're acting of their own volition and are every bit as culpable.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-69175137674494860742011-05-29T15:35:03.520+01:002011-05-29T15:35:03.520+01:00Angry Exile, contracting the kill MUST be held to ...Angry Exile, contracting the kill MUST be held to be the greater crime...<br /><br /><br /><br />...otherwise the divorce courts would go out of business.Shinar's Basket Casehttp://shinarbasketcase.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-30479720151299705962011-05-29T15:14:39.196+01:002011-05-29T15:14:39.196+01:00Thinking along similar lines to SBC here. Hiring a...Thinking along similar lines to SBC here. Hiring a killer to take someone's life for you is morally the same as using a gun or a knife to do the job yourself. The only difference is that a tool can't choose not to do it and whoever is hired can. I don't know that I'd say one is worse but I certainly feel the killer and the one who hires the killer are both as bad as each other, and that both deserve to be sentenced as if they did the deed themselves.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-37996700937955871062011-05-29T11:10:13.055+01:002011-05-29T11:10:13.055+01:00"The man who organised it got more than the m..."The man who organised it got more than the man who carried it out. "<br /><br />And rightly so. Contracting a murder is a worse crime than the deed its self.<br /><br />" “We will never stop until the truth eventually comes out.”" Again rightly so. They may be wrong and misguided in THIS case but its important that people protest and campaign if they think there has been a miscarriage of justice.Shinar's Basket Casehttp://shinarbasketcase.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com