Jan 12 2010
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“ Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert ruled on Friday that defense attorneys can present evidence to support a conviction of “voluntary manslaughter,” defined in Kansas law as ‘“an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force,” for Scott Roeder, the man charged with murdering abortion provider Dr. George Tiller on May 31, 2009.
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Disappointing Development in the Trial for Tiller - Feministing (via bmckinney)
So if I really believe that CEO’s of power companies aren’t doing anything about climate change and I really believe that climate change is going to result in the deaths of many people than I can shoot the CEO’s and only get charged with “voluntary manslaughter”? What happens if I said I really believed that God told me to do it?
