The Cryptkeeper
Well-Known Member
It does doesn't it? I always thought it should replace Murder in the First Degree....Thre's a difference between thinking about something as you make the decision, and planning something out in detail for hours, days, weeks, or years...Premeditated to me says "I have a plan, this is what I'm gonna do, and this is how I'm gonna get away with it."
Where as if you shoot an intruder to death because he's in your home and you react, or if you kill someone in a barfight, those are not murder because they're not premeditated..Besides, Manslaughter sounds so much more brutal!