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Jury selection question to weed out biased jurors: "Have you ever had a claim that was unfairly denied?"
Weeks later: "We have been unable to find enough jurors to try the case."
Absofuckinglutely not. I want him to never be found and continue to off health insurance CEOs one by one until we get universal healthcare like the rest of the developed world. And after he’s through with them there’s a whole list of other rich assholes that the world would be better off without, starting with the defense contractors.
Yes, murder is illegal no matter how glad it makes people - unless of course the President does it, which as we all know makes it okay.
Is this a one-off or the beginning of a movement? Probably a one-off. We shall see.
Jury nullification. If you're called for jury duty, DO NOT LET THEM KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS WHEN INTERVIEWING.
Yes. I have no sympathy for the CEO but murder is still murder
Then he should of already faced the death penalty for the thousands (millions?) of deaths he caused.
Is it though? The US still has the death penalty, and the person who commits those killings just gets paid and goes home.
And none of those people of death row are responsible for even a small fraction of the evil private health insurers are capable of.
Ah, the old tug-of-war between justice and law.
The old "It's Not Immoral When WE Do It!"
I want them to put an effort to find the guy, but ultimately I hope they never catch him. This dude is a hero, even if not for what he did, but the fear that he instilled in evil executives. It's much bigger than just the one guy. It's already made blue cross/blue shield change a fucked up policy. Even if this type of vigilante justice never happens again, the possibility of it must be in the back of every executives mind, and that alone should be enough to make the world slightly better. Even if just a little.
No
Yes, I do.
I want the state to make it crystal clear that this guy was the shooter. That he did it. That he had no legal justification to do it. That his actions were undeniably criminal, and that his crime was clearly premeditated.
And then I want a jury of his peers to return a "not guilty" verdict, and every scumbag business executive across the country suddenly deciding to take an early retirement.
His jury can't return that not guilty verdict if he isn't prosecuted.
What a good take on this question. Bravo.
This would be about sending a message...
And because of double jeopardy he'd be free from further (criminal) prosecution for those charges.
As much as I take some degree of delight in this CEO’s death, yes, his killer should face justice. Vigilante revenge should not be allowed in a civilized society. If we condone that, we open the floodgates for all forms of reprisal. As justified as I and others may feel this murder is, the CEO still should have had his day in court.
Here's the problem though: the CEO will never have had his day in court, or have at least any reasonable punishment enforced upon them. He, and these other rich assholes, are effectively untouchable. Sure, you'll hear a couple getting dragged into court for some reason or another, but will they ever have their lives ruined akin to what this shithead did to his clients? No, they pay for it to go away and then continue on like nothing happened.
Exception: they will face consequences if whatever they do hurts someone richer than them, usually by ripping them off (see: Madoff, Bankman-Fried, etc).
In public sure. Behind closed doors he should hailed for his service to the proletariat
Theoretically: no.
In practice, in the world we're living in? Hell no.
Any attempt to prosecute the killer would simply add to the advantage the ruling class already have, and be basically an injustice by definition no matter how "by the book" could it have been approached in the otherwise wondrful and illusory world of theory.
Follow up question: what is the purpose of the law? Why does it exist? What does that tell as about this case?
The law has been putting the screws down on regular people for generations and allowing the wealthy to get away with anything for generations. The law is fucked.
Why in the fuck would I?