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Originally Posted by accyman
i think they call it justified homicide in america
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With a good lawyer, a sympathetic DA and jury ... maybe manslaughter. It wasn't really murder. There was no malice and aforethought, "intent" if you like. The victim wasn't killed during the commission of another crime: robbery, for example. Still, the guy did kill someone. Having said that ... and being opposed to capital punishment ... in similar circumstances, I would like to think I would have done the same thing myself. Given my advanced age, I probably would have had to use a bat.