Justice is served in Kansas

[neadods]

After scaring us all with the possibility of a "voluntary manslaughter" charge (in which someone can get out of jail in a mere five years as long as they believed killing someone else Really Really Needed Doing Honest Cross My Heart, however "unreasonable" that belief) the jury took slightly over half an hour to convict Roeder of Murder One.

Because yes, it fucking IS premeditated murder to fantasize about maiming or killing someone, buying a gun, taking target practice, stalking the victim to find the "best" place to blow them away, showing up armed at the planned assassination spot THREE TIMES, and finally running up, putting a gun against the victim's skull, and pulling the trigger from point-blank range. No matter how many times "Tiller the baby killer" is repeated, that's pretty much the textbook definition of first degree homicide.

According to one news report, Roeder was also convicted of two counts of aggravated assault; I'm assuming that this is for the men in the church who tried to stop him and who he also threatened to shoot.


In other excellent reproductive rights news, England is announcing a new form of emergency contraception that can be used up to 5 days after.

Comments

[steviesun.livejournal.com]

I enjoy exploring the differences in the languages. I converse online enough with americans that it's useful to know some of them.

As for Trojans. I believe we used to have them over here too (my Dave remembers an advert). Funny thing is that it's one of those things where for years there was only one easy to buy brand but we never ever used the brand name. Dave once however was looking through a very very old book (I can't remember whether it was one he bought or whether it was in a library) but he turned to one page and there was, pressed between pages, a sheeps intestines one.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Wow! I can't imagine how old an actual sheep intestine one would be. (And a bit gross to find in a book!)

we never ever used the brand name

It's a cultural thing, I'm sure; America is obsessed with business, and obsessively marketed at so we'll associate a brand with a concept. (And then we go do it too often and the business loses its brand. This isn't that logical.)

[fyrdrakken]

I gather the sheep's intestine ones are still being sold, for the latex-allergic. Harder to find, I believe, and with the caveat that they aren't as microbe-resistant as the usual variety, but still.