How can you say that the murderer was in an agitated state of mind or was provoked? Murder is murder, no matter what way you look at it...
I read about 3 cases recently - a man in New Zealand was killed by a homophobic Hungarian man with a banjo, for no reason other than that the New Zealander was gay, and had supposedly spoken to him. In another case, a pregnant Egyptian woman was stabbed to death in a German court in front of her 3 year old son, in a blatantly racist attack (the woman had taken the man to court after he confronted her at a playground, calling her a terrorist because of her burkha). Another man stabbed his ex-girlfriend (who was in school and far younger than him) about 100 times in the back. All 3 of these men have been, or are being sentenced for manslaughter and receiving a much shorter jail term than they should be getting...
how does the legal system justify releasing madmen like these earlier than usual? If someone can get so angry that they commit murder, then isn't it likely that they will do it again? Unless someone hurts your family or something like that, I don't see how any sane person could be provoked to kill another person. Some of these cases look serious enough to be murder, and nothing less.
Do you think that manslaughter should be treated like murder, or that manslaughter charges should be restricted only to cases where murder was accidental or in other extraordinary cases?
I read about 3 cases recently - a man in New Zealand was killed by a homophobic Hungarian man with a banjo, for no reason other than that the New Zealander was gay, and had supposedly spoken to him. In another case, a pregnant Egyptian woman was stabbed to death in a German court in front of her 3 year old son, in a blatantly racist attack (the woman had taken the man to court after he confronted her at a playground, calling her a terrorist because of her burkha). Another man stabbed his ex-girlfriend (who was in school and far younger than him) about 100 times in the back. All 3 of these men have been, or are being sentenced for manslaughter and receiving a much shorter jail term than they should be getting...
how does the legal system justify releasing madmen like these earlier than usual? If someone can get so angry that they commit murder, then isn't it likely that they will do it again? Unless someone hurts your family or something like that, I don't see how any sane person could be provoked to kill another person. Some of these cases look serious enough to be murder, and nothing less.
Do you think that manslaughter should be treated like murder, or that manslaughter charges should be restricted only to cases where murder was accidental or in other extraordinary cases?