I don't see how this was "intentional homicide". Who can say what his intent was? At the high end he was hoping for a homicide, but at the low end where cops don't shoot unarmed people for touching their pants, maybe a bit of inconvenience.

Shooting someone yourself is intentional homicide.

Really it's ridiculous to me that some people are blaming someone else for an incompetent trigger-happy cop.

Throwing out my own analogy, it's like someone prank calling a hospital to tell them they have cancer, then a doctor killing them with chemo without doing any tests to verify they actually have it.

At some point you have to hold trusted professionals responsible for actually doing their jobs properly.

> other forms of intentional homicide, barring exceptional circumstances

Presumably then capital punishment, itself an example of intentional homicide, is among these "exceptional" circumstances?

No, I don't think that a jail sentence is morally equivalent to abduction, and I don't think that a DUI is morally equivalent to thievery.

I... didn't ask those things?

To rephrase... I don't think that the comparison between capital punishment and murder is worth the calories it takes to type, just like a comparison between a speeding ticket and armed robbery.

If the person dying is innocent, the end result is the same. Thoughts?

Also not what I asked.

I'm just pointing clarifying that, in your moral system, capital punishment must be one of the exceptions - it's obviously a form of intentional homicide, so you make an exception, right?

Just be careful with handing out such exceptions!