78 year old arrested for murder of burglar, *Update: Cleared of all charge but still faces strife,

[palou]

VGPolyglot said:

palou said:

See the edit.

 

Also; keeping it illegal allows judges to give more appropriate sentences *if* it ends up being a more ambiguous case.

Well, most cases of homicide are already illegal though, unless it's justified self defense.

The important point for me is - self defence against theft *isn't* good enough, and a bad idea, overall, while self defence against a clear murder attempt would be more so. This walks the fence a bit.