Isn’t that how the justice system works though? He claims it was self defense but the jury / courts didn’t believe it was, thus he was convicted for murder?
“Chasing someone down, telling them you are about to kill them and then doing it is not self-defense,” Lockett said.
Sure. That is how the justice system works. How the justice system should not work is him or anyone else being sentenced to be executed by the state for their crimes.
Yeah personally I don’t agree with the death penalty but that wasn’t my point
Why is batman held to a hrigher standard than the government?
Meh, IMO it’s totally fine when it is blatantly clear. Yes, I know it’s still subjective and I still wouldn’t trust the government with, “blatantly clear”, but my point is this guy is not a gray area.
To me, it doesn’t matter to me how clear it is. The state should not have powers that include life and death over its citizenry, no matter how heinous the crime. That’s a step toward fascism and the U.S. is taking way too many of those steps.
Yes, that’s why I said I still wouldn’t trust any government to do it correctly.
They always think it’s blatantly clear until they kill a person they later find out was innocent
Like I said, I still wouldn’t trust the government to do, “blatantly clear”.
Except that leaves it up to the court which has a record of wrongfully convicting people based on false or circumstantial evidence and then putting them on death row
Yes, that’s why I said I still wouldn’t trust the government to do it correctly.
The most interesting part to me was at the very end.
Hancock also was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in a separate shooting in 1982 in which he also claimed self-defense. He served less than three years of a four-year sentence in that case.
How many “self defense” shootouts does a personally generally get into in their lifetime?
That depends on how big of an asshole that person is. If you try hard enough, a lot of people will want to try killing you.
This guy got 2
