One of the Oklahoma teenagers accused of killing 23-year-old Australian baseball player Christopher Lane had previously posted images online showing himself posing with guns and wads of cash.In some other states, a hate-motivated killing gets enhanced punishment. Not in Oklahoma.
And three days before what police call the indiscriminate shooting, the suspect, 15-year-old James Edwards Jr., tweeted, "With my n****s when it's time to start taken life's."
Back in April, he tweeted, "90% of white ppl (people) are nasty. #HATE THEM."
But it probably doesn't matter much. It's not constitutional to fry juveniles, even if they get treated as adults for a horrible crime. So the state will go after them all for the top count of first-degree murder. This case is too high profile, there won't be much in the way of deals offered.
2 comments:
"a hate-motivated killing"
As opposed to...?
Hate crimes are those crimes in which the victim is chosen solely because of the victim's race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, etc. As opposed to where Bubba kills Jethro because Bubba doesn't care for Jethro.
I suspect, though, that I'm not telling you anything you don't know.
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