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Re:On Geeks and Gays by doki_pen on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @08:41AM (#1298005)
Doesn't murder require intent? Are you saying that the government planned on destabili+ng him in order to make him commit suicide? Am I just thinking of murder 1?
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Re:On Geeks and Gays by tsally on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @02:51PM (#1299216)
I was using murder in a colloquial sense, not a legal one. I'm pretty sure in England the legal term for what was done to Turing is constructive manslaughter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter_in_English_law#Unl...). But IANAL.
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Re:On Geeks and Gays by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @04:55PM (#1299686)
>I'm pretty sure in England the legal term for what was done to Turing is constructive manslaughter.

The legal term would be something like "proper application of criminal law". You can't claim that it was constructive manslaughter to apply the law at the time.

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