Rutgers Student Suicide

Sithis
Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:46:34 +0000

My point is that just because the simple man believing shooting a man in the head will not kill him doesn’t fly in court, because ignorance of the crime is no excuse, neither should this.

This situation is hardly analagous.



with the intent to cause humiliation, suffering, and shame.

I don’t think they intended for him to find out about it.

I think that the highest charge that could be brought against them is Involuntary Manslaughter (though I’m not even sure if the prosecution is pursuing this, the last I heard it was just the invasion of privacy charges). This would indeed usually only carry a penalty of a few years in prison. I cannot think of any legal way in which those two will have their lives taken from them, as you seem to desire.

While I agree that what they did was awful, and that they are terrible human beings, I don’t think that destroying 2 more lives is the appropriate response here. That seems to be more vengeance than justice. They will still have to live with the personal and social consequences of what they did, along with any criminal sentence.