2007-02-19 19:44:12 · 8 answers · asked by shineredrum 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
There are several possibilites under the law.
Murder is when a person kills another person whom he/she intended to kill anyway. This means that they are normal because they know what are the consequences of their actions and they still proceed to do it anyway.
Manslaughter is when a person kills someone without having the intention to kill the other person in the first place. This is when someone knows that there is a possibility that death may occur due to their actions but still continue to do so.
Pleading insanity, intoxication, duress etc are just mitigating factors in determining liability in a murder. Whoever claims such factors must be clinically proven to be insane in the first place in order to allow the defence be entered.
Depending on circumstances, a person who kills can be perfectly normal e.g in the case of self defence. The action is automatic as we are born with natural survival instinct.
2007-02-19 22:10:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Normal" no, because normal is a statistical term and most people don't kill people.
And yes, many killers are not "insane", they are motivated by anger, revenge, lust, greed, jealousy, fear, and other feelings that you and I maybe also experience. The difference is mostly one of two things. Most of us restrain our behaviour in expression of our feelings more than some killers do. (Some other killers are people who restrain too much and then suddenly snap.) And some killers suffered from what they experienced as extreme provocation in the run-up to their killing action.
2007-02-19 19:58:18 · answer #2 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No; the legal test is if they are aware of the consequences of their actions, which is demonstrated by any and all means used to conver up the crime they have commited.
Sociopaths are same and can appear completely normal and they know the consequences of their actions, yet they chose not to confine or curtail their desire of need to hurt other people as they justify it in their mind in a warped way as being justified, and do what they do to fulfill their warped needs and although they know it is wrong, do it any way. They make attempts to conceal their crime, which show culpability.
2007-02-19 20:01:31 · answer #3 · answered by bottleblondemama 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Impossible to kill and be perfectly normal. A killer can be normal in all other respects than his disregard of the value of life.
2007-02-19 21:13:40 · answer #4 · answered by John B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Temporary insanity where logic fails to work for a certain period of time and the person thinks literally that he can "get away with murder"
2007-02-19 19:53:18 · answer #5 · answered by young_friend 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
abnormal behavior...not perfectly normal unless the whole world went insane at the same time
2007-02-19 19:48:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they can be sociopathic, normal selective sociopathic,or sociopathic-psychotic # 1killing is like taking out the trash #2 bonds & empathizes ok,but kills when necessary #3 gets jollies only when killing.the answer is no and possibly
2007-02-19 19:58:26 · answer #7 · answered by quackpotwatcher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it really depends...now if you murder someone then you could be perfectly normal...but if you just kill just for the fun of it....there's definitely something wrong up there.
2007-02-19 19:50:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋