Jason Woods, January 6th violent rioter, pardoned by tRUMP murders woman

@ArishMell In that, he was more honest than the cowardly Apricot Antichrist.

@KunsanVeteran I cannot take Party sides, nor judge the rightness of any pardon; but although I have no time for actions like that invasion, politics is no excuse for murder / manslaughter, nor for blaming anyone but the killer.

I have no sympathy for him whatsoever. I do not consider his party-political views as they are not relevant even if he uses them as an excuse.

He chose to drive a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. As a result he killed one woman and blinded another. Whether that was wilful, so murder, or unintended but wholly avoidable, so manslaughter, is a matter for US Law and Courts; but by either charge he and he alone committed it and only he is responsible for it. He cannot possibly blame it on anyone else, let alone "hurt feelings", merely because an election did not go his way. Using politics to excuse unlawful killing is one definition of terrorism.

@ArishMell I agree.

However, he admitted that he deliberately crashed into her car. Now it seems he was doing it more to commit suicide than murder, but???

How do we adjudicate this? Isn’t that still murder?

@KunsanVeteran Killing someone by deliberately crashing into her car is murder or at the very least manslaughter.

I don't know how the driver would be charged in the USA. I think in the UK he might have been charged with murder but there would remain the possibility of the Court finding him guilty of the "lesser" charge of manslaughter instead; but I can't draw simple parallels. Either way it is still the needless killing of a person as a result of a deliberate act.

I gather they had a problem at one time with people committing suicide by driving at high speed straight into oncoming vehicles, but they chose big lorries, whose drivers are less likely to be killed by the crash.