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There’s another issue here, and I don’t know if this is the best thread to discuss it... but there’s something I don’t like about this (sortof) new tactic of charging people with murder when somebody dies in a crime they’re a participant in.

Satisfying as it may be to hang these good-for-nothings, I think people should be charged with crimes they actually commit. Not things that other people do. If two people rob a bank and one of them kills the guard, I still think only one of them is guilty of murder. The other is a bank robber. If they ~planned~ it together that way, I can see a conspiracy charge for the other guy, but only the trigger man is the murderer. IMHO.

A lot of bad things in this case. Two teenagers, one with a gun, trying to rob a pharmacy. A disaster in the making for all, including the two women employees.

What the hell is a 14 year old doing with a gun? He’ll get off with a few years despite this being a FELONY MURDER case, and a criminal conspiracy case (the two adults who got life were planners of the conspiracy and provided the gun).

The16 year old who got killed deserved it. Whether the pharmacist should have shot him after he was down, and after some time had passed, is a bad call all around. The gang could have come back for revenge.

However, the pharmacist and his attorney should have pled to either Second Degree Homicide or Voluntary Manslaughter. He might have gotten a break.

And what is with the majority of criminals in Oklahoma City blacks, esp. teenagers? What is wrong with that city, its Mayor, City Council, etc. that this is happening? ‘ve seen too many crime reports from OC not to ask this. Is poverty behind this or something else, more invidious, such as a liberal welfare/victimology mentality that lets the criminal element go hog wild?

These ain’t AMISH robbers, folks. Something is wrong in OC. Please tell me what it is.