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matwoodtoday at 8:24 AM1 replyview on HN

The movie Heat addresses this scenario in the opening scene. A guard is shot 'accidentally' during a robbery even though they didn't intend to kill anyone. At that point they killed all the guards because 1 guard or 3 guards, it had become a capital murder crime so might as well not leave any witnesses.


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f1shytoday at 8:28 AM

That is the problem with draconian law. Because it saturates to death penalty pretty fast, any crime escalates pretty quick.