{"id":615,"date":"2012-10-19T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=615"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:52:01","slug":"15-whats-the-point-of-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"15. What&#8217;s the Point of Punishment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-616\" title=\"Excuse15\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse15.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse15-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a154793086621048332964' value='6a154793086621048332964'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a154793086621048332964' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a154793086621048332964' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a154793086621048332964' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 15: Delusions<\/p>\n<p>Douglas killed Tina, no question.<\/p>\n<p>He intended to kill her, or at least cause her severe physical injury.<\/p>\n<p>Under his state&#8217;s law, he had the necessary mens rea and committed the necessary actus reus to be charged with\u00a0<strong>murder.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even so, we&#8217;re\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong> going to punish him for it.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas is excused, because in his condition he couldn&#8217;t have known that he was killing Tina.<\/p>\n<p><em>The State explaining<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Remember, we only want to punish people who\u00a0<strong>deserve<\/strong> it. Someone who didn&#8217;t know what he was doing may need\u00a0<strong>treatment,<\/strong> but punishment would serve no\u00a0<strong>purpose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a154793086621048332964' 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":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}