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GreenStormCloud

(12,072 posts) Mon Jun 18, 2012, 11:35 PM Jun 2012

GEORGIA: Justifiable homicides up, murders down for 2010

ATLANTA — The number of justifiable homicides in Georgia has increased since 2006, the same year state lawmakers passed a version of the controversial self-defense law that's the target of national scrutiny in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida.

An Associated Press analysis of Georgia Bureau of Investigation data found that justifiable homicides involving private citizens averaged seven per year in the three years before the so-called stand your ground law took effect. It then jumped to an average of 13 per year in the five full years since then.

Killings that involved police officers also saw a similar increase. Meanwhile, Georgia's overall murder rate has decreased between 2000 and 2010, from a rate of 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2000 to 5.4 per 100,000 in 2010. Georgia's population has increased 20 percent during that time.

MORE AT LINK:http://savannahnow.com/latest-news/2012-05-04/justifiable-homicides-ga-increase-after-law

Again, I wonder why police killings have also doubled since SYG?

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GEORGIA: Justifiable homicides up, murders down for 2010 (Original Post) GreenStormCloud Jun 2012 OP

Of course justifiable homicides are always not a bad thing ... spin Jun 2012 #1

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1. Of course justifiable homicides are always not a bad thing ...

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Mon Jun 18, 2012, 11:55 PM

Jun 2012

while murders are.

justifiable homicide n. a killing without evil or criminal intent, for which there can be no blame, such as self-defense to protect oneself or to protect another, or the shooting by a law enforcement officer in fulfilling his/her duties. This is not to be confused with a crime of passion or claim of diminished capacity which refer to defenses aimed at reducing the penalty or degree of crime. (See: homicide, self-defense)
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Justifiable+homicide

The reason I post this is that the media has often portrayed the increase in justifiable homicides in a very negative light. Perhaps they honestly feel that it would be better that innocent victims suffer serious injury or death than to defend themselves.

While infrequent, I feel that there are times when a state's legal system's decision that a killing is justifiable homicide could be questioned with good reason. That merely proves that justice may not always administered in a fair manner.

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