Not Really Helping, Buddy

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It’s probably not a help to the Muslim cause when a man in charge of running a TV station aimed at quelling Islamic stereotypes, beheads his wife. Tisk tisk tisk.

My real WTF moment isn’t with the beheading though, because in this crazy world, getting your head lopped off isn’t enough to shock people. What really shocks people (at least me) is that this guy is charged with 2nd degree murder. Not 1st? This didn’t seem premeditated? I think a general rule of thumb should be that if you sever the head off of someone’s body, it means you’ve thought about doing that before. Firing a gun in a passionate rage? Fine. 2nd degree murder. Some guy stabbing another guy because he talked to his girlfriend on the subway. Cool. 2nd degree heat.

Decapitating your wife and leaving her body (without the head nearby, it seems) at the TV station you run, and then immediately going to the police station to confess, sounds like a guy who was pretty sure about the consequences of cutting his wife’s head off. How is this NOT 1st degree murder? Did he need to construct a guillotine and set it up in his office for this to be premeditated? WTF!