{"id":255,"date":"2012-10-17T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=255"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:28:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:28:28","slug":"26-punishing-awfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"26. Punishing Awfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-256\" title=\"Culpability09\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Culpability09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Culpability09.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Culpability09-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e5f0f09689d6050786108' value='69e5f0f09689d6050786108'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e5f0f09689d6050786108' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e5f0f09689d6050786108' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e5f0f09689d6050786108' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 7: Axes of Evil<br \/>Page 9: Sadistic<\/p>\n<p>Take two intentional murderers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Man swinging a cast iron skillet like a tennis racket<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One, a husband fed up with his wife&#8217;s cooking, kills her with a single blow.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe grinning wide-eyed while stabbing with an ice pick in a spray of blood<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second, a sadistic psychopath, kills a young woman<\/p>\n<p>\u2026horrifically.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lady Justice gesturing a slash across her throat with a finger<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each one committed the same crime, with the same mens rea, and each is equally responsible.<\/p>\n<p>But Lady Justice here wants the State to punish the sadistic killer far worse.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e5f0f09689d6050786108' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37,1],"tags":[5,4,16,18,17,19],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-culpability","tag-liability","tag-mens-rea","tag-responsibility"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}