Which is precisely my point: that “intent” should always be weighed heavily when essentially ending the defendant’s life as he/she knows it.
It’s quite frustrating to me that so many (see the 2020 BLM/ANTIFA riots) thugs whose sole intent was causing death, mayhem, and physical and property damage are simply let off the hook.
Whereas law enforcement officers whose lethal actions, while at times horrible, tragic, and regrettable to the nth degree, can still, at times, be legitimately classified as something we’ve all experienced to one extent or another: they made a terrible mistake in the course of doing what they thought was right.
” be legitimately classified as something we’ve all experienced to one extent or another”
Sorry. I have never killed anyone with my ‘Taser’.