This is likely a 2nd degree murder (IANAL) but I tell ya, this is an example of a 2nd degree murder which IMO should be prosecuted and sentenced as vigorously as a 1st degree murder.
Consider: This is pure animalistic violent behavior, with no apparent self-imposed limitations, and if society is to be protected against such, this deserves a very lengthy prison sentence. If the perps here can go overboard to this extent over something so apparently trivial, then at what point are they to be considered safe to allow to run loose? And I mean, “run loose”. This is animalistic behavior, not human behavior.
As opposed to first degree murder, which, though it is certainly heinous and deliberate, is probably directed only at a single person whom the perp believes has wronged him/her to an intolerable degree. That it is premeditated speaks to a sense of logic, a sense of right and wrong, twisted though they may be.
My opinion.
The perps had the chance to keep driving. They chose to stop and beat an injured man to death.
The perps had the chance to keep driving. They chose to stop and beat an injured man to death.
somehow I wonder if some of this violence is related to how obama ran his campaign, the in-your-face attitude of obama and his followers.