Re: Tookie, tookie, tookie... what about the victims?
In a court of law, one would factor in the intent of the criminal to determine the severity of the punishment. A political motivation for killing the president should be taken into consideration.
Regardless, even if you think you were doing a good deed, the punishment for you murdering the President should be higher than the punishment for murdering a street thug. This is not dismissing the life of the street thug, because one would still be punished for murdering him. It is a matter of punishing a person much more for the particular heinousness of a crime.
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