Posted on 03/08/2024 9:37:07 PM PST by BenLurkin
Nothing says “advanced society” like sanctioning wife murder.
It also sanctions husband murder.
But the word sanction is vocabulary mis-use.
Mitigation of Sentence is the correct term.
It tends to be exercised before juries in Texas.
I find the “she had it coming” stuff insane.
” I don’t know what those women were thinking.”
The poor man is a widower.
There were only two posts in the entire thread, 7 and 26, that even intimated that. That said, crime of passion has been used as a defense or argument in mitigation of sentence in U.S. criminal law forever. An example is a guy who walks into his house, sees his wife in bed with another guy, flips out and does harm to either or both of them. The argument is that he doesn't have the requisite state of mind for criminality. It's basically a temporary insanity defense. That was not the case here, though, because he had time to think about it and decide what he was going to do. I'm amazed he got only ten years.
It’s among the most painful things imaginable when the woman you love “cheats,” I know, but a crime is a crime, and murder is murder.
An American is visiting his friends in Paris...
...and he is having trouble understanding some of the French idioms. “Specifically,” he says, “the French expression sang froid. I know it literally means ‘cold blood’, but when would you use it?”
The first Frenchman nods and says, “It is when you walk into your bedroom and see your friend making love with your wife. If you simply close the door and leave, then you have sang froid.”
“Non, non, non,” the second Frenchman exclaims. “It is, if you see your friend making love and you say, ‘Pardon the intrusion, continue please, then you have sang froid.”
“C’est formidable, mais...” the third Frenchman begins, “The real meaning, it is this: If you see your friend making love to your woman, and you say, ‘Pardon the intrusion, continue please,’ and he does, then he has sang froid.”
Oh, she'll meet Him ...
the meeting may not go quite as well as some folks on this thread seem to think it will ...
Ha, thanks for the laugh at the end of a long day!
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