Date With the Executioner for Murder by Someone Else
29th August 2007
Well, no. The crime of “murder” is defined by the law. Texas law says that if you’re a perp involved in a crime and somebody dies, you’re a murderer. By participating in a crime that resulted in murder, this guy became a murderer.
This “felony murder rule” has been a part of the Anglosphere common law since the 12th century. Before the socialists took over in Britain, robbers out for a job would search each other first to make sure than none of them was armed, just to avoid this particular happenstance — so the system worked.