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Originally Posted by masraum

I get it, premeditated murder. It seems they've been model prisoners.



If children experience abuse (emotional, physical, or sexual or a mix of any/all of those) from a parent (or anyone), they are going to have issues. If a child has been abused for years starting when they were young and until they were older, then a premeditated murder of the abuser is not the same as the premeditated murder of someone else for another reason.

Hell, if an adult experiences that from another adult, they are going to have issues (likely a lot of anger). Lets say you're in prison with big leroy as a cell mate and you end up being his wife by no choice of your own. Then I would see a carefully planned premeditated murder as a form of self defense. And when you perform that murder, there's very likely to be a bit of anger that accompanies the murder.

That would not be the same as "my neighbor pissed me off so I planned out his death" kind of thing or "if I divorced him/her, she'd have gotten half my stuff, so murder was a financial move on my part" or any number of other reasons why folks kill other folks.

If a parent caught someone abusing their young child, most folks would be completely supportive of the parent killing that person in the moment. The difference between that and a premeditated murder in a similar situation isn't hugely different.

You make valid points but I had not considered them in this case. I just don't believe them. I'm completely open to be proven wrong but not sure how that would occur at this point.