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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
^^^ The only difference is pre-meditation. So if you think about doing it for at least a day or so longer, well then you go to jail. However, if you act on impulse and fire from the hip, that's excusable!
However, I'm not sure the parents exhausted all their courses of actions. A man touching a father's daughter and being caught in the act with her immediate safety at risk is the obvious difference.
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That and the actual major difference, the fact that the other case is a situation of someone coming to the defense of their child during the immediate commission of the act. The father of the 4 year old isn't getting off because he didn't think about things, he's getting off because the defense of his child is a defense to the crime of murder.