Is there any country where it is legal to murder someone?
145430
"Murder" defines the ILLEGAL killing of another human being. Killing someone isn't "murder" until the killer is convicted of the crime of murder. So yes, killing a person is legal in most countries.\n\nOJ Simpson and Senator Ted Kennedy are classic examples of a "killer", but they're not  murderers. Doctors who perform abortion and euthanasia are "killers", but not murderers. Executioners are killers and so are drunk drivers in many cases. They usually aren't charged with nor convicted of murder.
127413
I don't beleive so. Maybe in Saudi Arabia you can be condemned to death, but in the USA definitely not. Islamic laws in different countries and among different cultures are different. My opinion is that nobody can condemn you to death because of your religious beliefs.
284851
Thats what happens when someone in another country trys to kill americans.
1042815
Yes.\n\nBy the explicit text of the Aqdas, sometimes referred to as the Book of Laws, the death penalty is permitted for murder and arson, but not required.  Because of this, we oppose the total elimination of the death penalty.
1084067
Yes but there would have to be very strict osntrols surrounding it and it would have to be done in a controlled environment such as a hospital. Imagine if someone killed a person and stood up in court and said "it was a mercy killing, they wanted to die" and there was no way of convicting them or murder.
457471
I'd say some european country, GB or something. in asia and the middle east, people kill their firstborn if its a female. there are more females in america.
1108413
Depends on what country you are in and the actual nature of the crime!
35246
No, as the only industrialized country to still have the death penalty we have the highest crime rate out of any of them.
1042348
There is a place where you can legally kill someone and get away with it.\n\nIt's called The United States of America.\n\nAll you have to do is prove self-defense.\n\nMaybe not what you were wondering?
42264
In the state of Minnesota:\n\n (a) Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.\n\n(b) Whoever, without intent to cause death, proximately causes the death of a human being by, directly or indirectly, unlawfully selling, giving away, bartering, delivering, exchanging, distributing, or administering a controlled substance classified in schedule I or II, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $40,000, or both.
472826
Even if there were no laws against it, it would still be morally wrong. You might not go to prison, but you would burn in hell for all eternity. So my answer would be no, I would not kill someone for real.
453075
Not killing but justice. (punishment) Not just for any one but the lawful government can put someone to death who deserves it for crimes committed like murder.
316879
This question really requires an in-depth knowledge of every country's legal system, which is not very possible. 155 states, including some who in practice consider people guilty until proven innocent, have adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states, "Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall have the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law." That is the vast majority of the 191 member states of the UN. I don't really care to compare the two lists, but you can if you so desire.
6917
Murder-you have no right to inflict harm unto another living soul. But sin and suicide are almost equally as bad. There is always an alternative.
865609
In my State these are the reasons for being given a sentence of death; multiple murders (killing more than one person), murdering a police officer, murder during the execution of a felony. Examples of murder during the act of a felony would be if you kill a bank clerk during a robbery or a kill a woman during a rape. \n\nThere are also some Federal laws which call for capital punishment like murder and treason. The Federal government seldom executes anyone. In fact, I can not remember, nor can I find any reference to anyone being executed by the Federal government in recent years.
564596
Each State has its own guidelines for capital punishment.\n\nBut for the Federal guidelines- there are many- some of which are not murder - although most of them are circumstances that require a death result (such as kidnapping where a death results; attack on an airline where a death results) but there are some like treason, or related to drug kingpins, etc.\n\nHere is a link- it's pretty dense- but it's all there:\n\nhttp://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL30962.pdf
900997
Isn't it wrong to condone murdering ANYONE?