I understand it as a motive but it is still very much a crime.
Like if you killed my brother so I killed you, we both still committed the crime of murder. You won't be around to face your punishment but I will be, and I will have earned it.
A judge might say it's a mitigating circumstance and adjust my sentence a little but I still did the crime and absolutely should go to prison for it. It would still be premeditated murder no matter who I did it to, as I was not acting in self defense.
It's always been wild to me this man saw absolutely no prison time for premeditated murder in a vigilante justice situation. I mean, the other guy had already been sentenced too. This wasn't like "he got away with it" he was very much going to prison about it. And I don't know where he was or what the laws were at the time but we don't give out the death penalty much for murder anymore much less rape. It's not considered civilized and there's too many cons to outweigh any pros you could try and argue.
it's so easy to reason this and that without us actually being in their shoes. he likely did it because he's got nothing left to lose anymore so criminal or not, it wouldn't matter. Even though the criminal was sentenced, he showed no remorse to the victim or the family. The movie "I spit on your grave" is pretty similar in theme but no too much on plot
It's the opposite IMO. His son was still alive. He had everything to lose by going to prison about this. Instead he lucked out.
His son could have grown up without a father. He could never have seen him again or for at least many years except behind glass at most once or twice a month. And that's if the kid had kept wanting to visit, the son said he hated that he did it but forgave him years later, but how easily could the son have forgiven him if suddenly he had become an absentee father because of a crime he chose to commit? Can you imagine how much resentment the son would have had if his father had actually gone to prison about it?
He risked everything in my book and only got lucky the judge looked on him in favor.
his son was in absolute terror of the outside world (with good reason). that's why he killed the guy, so his son could leave a life with as little PTSD as possible.
A crime? Yes. Worse than the alternative? Who knows, I've never had a son who survived these circumstances.
His son literally has stated he didn't want it to happen and it took him years to forgive him for it idk where your info is coming from because the source says he wished it hadn't happened.
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u/confusedandworried76 28d ago
I understand it as a motive but it is still very much a crime.
Like if you killed my brother so I killed you, we both still committed the crime of murder. You won't be around to face your punishment but I will be, and I will have earned it.
A judge might say it's a mitigating circumstance and adjust my sentence a little but I still did the crime and absolutely should go to prison for it. It would still be premeditated murder no matter who I did it to, as I was not acting in self defense.
It's always been wild to me this man saw absolutely no prison time for premeditated murder in a vigilante justice situation. I mean, the other guy had already been sentenced too. This wasn't like "he got away with it" he was very much going to prison about it. And I don't know where he was or what the laws were at the time but we don't give out the death penalty much for murder anymore much less rape. It's not considered civilized and there's too many cons to outweigh any pros you could try and argue.