My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.