Wednesday, July 27, 2005
testYou know what's weird? How being charged for Murder (1st or 2nd degree) has a more severe penalty than attempted murder. Really, isn't the act and intention the same? The only difference is, in one, the accused failed to get the job done. So remember kids, failure isn't always necessarily bad.

Personally, I think it should be the other way around. So it'd be either "Nick Hammer, I find you guilty of 1st-degree murder and sentence you to 40 years in prison," or "Nick Hammer, I find you guilty of attempted murder. We realize that you fully intended to murder the defendent, but due to some major incompetence managed to shoot him not in the heart as you had thought, but in the buttocks. And although the defendent may find sitting sitting down a pain in the ass (HA HA) for a while, he is quite alive and testament to your utter failure. Hence, your utter ineptitude has earned you 50 years in jail, and by "jail" I mean a 5' x 5' mailbox. Have a nice day, tool."

In all some seriousness though, when the severity of the penalty depends (more often than not) on a) the would-be murderer's inability to completely kill someone, and b) the victim's ability to survive, there's something wrong.

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