Examples Of First Degree Murder Because It Was Unintentional Murder

“First-degree murder? Me? I wasn’t thinking straight.” Says the murderer of his wife and brother-in-law. How could he claim it was unintentional? First-degree premeditated murder. Four shots to the head, three behind the victims ear and one above her eyebrow, two more pierced through her chest and several scattered across her body. Yet, he still claims, “it was unintentional”. The Defendant claimed that he missed the first two shots of firing at her. She reacted by jumping on the bed and shoving him, resulting in him shoving her onto the floor and shooting her in the head and all over her body as she lay on the floor. His testimony supported the conclusion that he did not instantly or impulsively attack his wife, or inflict deadly wounds within
Furthermore, he also took time to reload the gun, which gave him another opportunity to contemplate his actions before firing more shots. It sparked my interest when his appeal was considered as not having enough evidence for first-degree murder on the two victims. After murdering his wife, he gathered their four daughters, drove to the restaurant her family owned with the intention of murdering her other family members, but in this case, only managed his wife’s brother. Moreover, the defendant had been pacing around the house for two hours (giving him enough time to reflect) with the loaded firearm checking the windows and doors, contemplating whether to kill his wife and what consequences killing her would be for their children. At 7:30am, he committed the murder. A week or so prior to her murder, they had had an argument on whether the female victim should quit her job or not. I came to grips with the idea of ‘premeditation’ and ‘deliberation’ when I had to translate to my grandmother what the lawyers and judge were saying at the