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| Author: | pcernie [ Wed May 05, 2010 12:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Robbers point gun at boy's head in Tameside post office |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 661808.stm Depending on the state, is there any chance you'd be executed for that in America, just out of curiosity? |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Wed May 05, 2010 1:09 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Robbers point gun at boy's head in Tameside post office | |||||||||
No, you only get the death penalty for actually killing people, strangely enough. What that guy did could go under a variety of offenses up to attempted murder but I doubt he'd get life, let alone The Long Walk. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Wed May 05, 2010 2:09 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Robbers point gun at boy's head in Tameside post office | ||||||||||||||||||
I always meant to look it up, it was what 'capital crimes' extended to that I always wondered about as a result... |
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