[marajade]

"They knew he had a deadly weapon, and that death was a forceable consequence of the perp using it to gain compliance from the clerk."

That's right, they did... And they also received a tip that he was planning on armed robbery, not murder...

[SarahW]

I'm starting to think you *are* irrational. Didn't I just point out to you that you can be guilty of murder even if you are not certain murder will occur? If you know a crime is planned, and deadly force will be used in a crime, you know that someone might end up dead.

You don't seem to understand that the cops knew the clerk's life was in danger, had clear opportunity to obviate the danger. They thought a longer sentence for a harder crime was worth the clerk's life.

[SarahW]

I'm starting to think you *are* irrational. Didn't I just point out to you that you can be guilty of murder even if you are not certain murder will occur? If you know a crime is planned, and deadly force will be used in a crime, you know that someone might end up dead.

You don't seem to understand that the cops knew the clerk's life was in danger, had clear opportunity to obviate the danger. They thought a longer sentence for a harder crime was worth the clerk's life.

[stands2reason]

You actually believe that murders that occur during a commission of an armed robbery are usually planned?!? Your use of rhetoric has been absolutely Clintonian on this thread. Maybe you should ask yourself why you feel it's necessary to engage in such backbreaking feats of spin just to debate your position.