What is the motive for the premeditated killing?
Your boss say you are ah qua, you angry, go NTUC Fairprice
buy a knife and kill him. Homicide not amounting to murder.
You go find string, tie up your wife, suffocate her to death,
pretend it is robbery, to collect insurance money. Hang.
Disqualified because of drink driving, drive BMW under
disqualification, hit and run kill old man. Disqualified from
driving for life, and 18 months jail. homicide by a rash act.
Not fair to the killee, but fair to the killer.
Motive should not be considered in a crime.
A person who steals money to pay for his gambling debts will
have to go to jail.
A person who steals money and give it to the poor still have to
go to jail.
A person who steals money to give to his wife who needs money to
cure her cancer still goes to jail