Bad Santa. No, I mean REALLY Bad.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

You take a life by accident (ex: car wreck)? You take a life defending yourself? You take a life defending your family? You take a life defending our citizens?

Then you should die, no matter the circumstances under which it happened.

I didn't say "take a life". I said commit a murder. I also didn't say circumstances don't matter. I said mental state doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if they are insane, mentally retarded, on drugs, etc.

Murder means they thought about it before doing it. Circumstances matter. If a woman walks in and sees her husband having sex with another woman and she hits him in the head with a lamp, there was no premeditation and no forethought of malice. It was a crime of passion.

If someone thinks their neighbor is the spawn of satan, so they go out and buy duct tape, quick lime, a shovel, and rope and they wait for their neighbor to get off of work, and take them to a hole they've already dug in the desert, they are committing murder.

If they spend months contemplating how their kids would be better off in heaven, wait until their husband goes to work, draws a bath, and takes their five children one by one into the bathroom and drowns them, and then chases their oldest kid outside and drags him kicking and screaming back to the bath where she kills him too, she is committing murder regardless of whether she is depressed, schizophrenic, mentally retarded, or just plain evil.