Read the background information on this. These guys were beyond reckless. They knew how dangerous it was and let the public use it anyway. Second degree murder is totally appropriate.
Seems the first bad accident and nobody would want to use it anymore. So to have malice makes no sense. There is every disincentive.
We have to look at the Scylla to this Charybdis — namely the supremacy of government nannydom. It’s not even perhaps that somebody got killed on the allegedly misbegotten apparatus. It’s perhaps that some regulation was not followed.
If freedom doesn’t mean the freedom to do something dangerous, even deadly, at our own option, what does it mean? We construct rubber rooms on pain of law, but at what other costs?
Agree. Second degree murder is an appropriate charge.
“Second degree murder is totally appropriate.”
Maybe, but not legal.
By definition.
>>These guys were beyond reckless.
Murder is an intentional act. Even manslaughter requires a mens rea — a criminal mind, if you will. At worst, this is gross negligence.