#18-whatever looked at the german system and presumably some others and said yeah okay the quality that makes a homicide the Worst Sort of
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someone who knows more things about the development of us criminal law than me should write an essay on the difference between murder in the first degree and Mord
#at some point in time someone in the us looked at all the possible variants of homicides and said Yeah the quality that makes a homicide#the Worst Sort of Homicide and deserving of the worst punishment our legal system allows for is premeditation. and messieur stoos in late#18-whatever looked at the german system and presumably some others and said yeah okay the quality that makes a homicide the Worst Sort of#Homicide is a particular lack of scruples shown by the killer in the commission of the act (method/goal/whatever). and if you look at the#case law for what is considered a particular lack of scruples it almost always involves commission of one of the seven mortal sins. this#definitely says SOMETHING about herrschende moralvorstellungen and someone who's smarter than me should write me a book about it#sorry i mean the seven DEADLY sins. Todsünde. apparently a mortal sin and a deadly sin aren't the same thing who knew
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