Texas jury rules - it's OK to kill escorts and prostitutes

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Last time I checked, prostitution is illegal. This numbnut shot a woman in the commission of a crime.
As the dead woman had been an escort, I presume she worked for an agency the "aggrieved" man could have complained to in order to get his money back. No need to shoot her.
And I presume the feeling is, a state like Texas where there is an old west history is more likely to sympathize with someone lethally "defending" their property. Well, my own state of Washington also shares an old west past, and I'm willing to bet our badmen like Harry Tracy or Hank Vaughan could make short work of Texans like John Wesley Hardin or Johny Ringo. Regardless of that, I couldn't imagine a jury in my state deciding the non-violent theft of a $150.00 justified the loss of a human life.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

@Texas - And you wonder why the world sometimes regards you as undereducated, violent trash

It sounds like robbery to me, grab the money give it to her driver, which is a crime. No sex was sold, it was theft.

It is not much different from buying smokes at the 7/11, and grabbing the twenties when the draw opens.

So the clerk shot the person who grabbed the money.

The act of crime is the danger of life or property the law protects.

Jump over a bank counter, fill a bag, jump back over and leave, anyone inside or out of the bank can shoot you.

Robbers do not have to be armed to lose the protections of the law. That they are robbing is a presumption that they may also be armed, and not like witnesses.

Give me the money is often followed by Bang Bang, you are dead.

I live the next state over, if I found someone I do not know, or even do know, in my house without my permission, they do not have to be stealing or armed, just being there is enough reason to kill them.

In a local case someone saw three men loading his motorcycle in a truck, went out to stop them, and got a bullet in the head, he had a wife and baby. People doing crime are considered dangerous.

Lots of 7/11 clerks, gas station attendants have been found dead, after they handed over the money.

Shooting a robber in those situations would be allowed.

Robbing people there is a presumption you have some way to back that up, some force, and the amount robbed has nothing to do with it.

Hookers have left a lot of bodies in hotel rooms, down dirt roads, as it was just an in to robbery and murder. Eileen Waros in Florida, hitchhiked, told men she would have sex with them, took then to a rural place and killed them. Hooker turned serial killer.

The issue is thinking your life is in danger when jacked by a hoe. It is.

This isn't even a Gun Law in the first place, it is a law involving theft/self defense. If this was true about the problem being guns, he would have stabbed her, or killed her with a bat, or choked her, this isn't an issue about guns.

Other than that, this guy shouldn't be put in jail for using a gun at all, he should be put in jail for killing a prostitute over money. This strikes a low, you shouldn't kill a prostitute over money, it is just stupid. Ending a life to defend against murder is one, but killing a prostitute over $150 is completely ridiculous.

Again this has nothing to do with Guns, this is an issue of murder/theft/self defense/ not killing women over money they took from you when you paid them for sex. In fact he wasn't in any danger, so he didn't even need to kill her at all.

Not saying I wouldn't defend my house against an intruder but I wouldn't kill them, that is completely unnecessary. And if he was suing me over his injuries, I would propose a deal to drop the charges against him as long as he dropped his, with good legal representation of course. And maybe pay for his lawyer, it can't hurt. People seem to be so apt to kill over this, just put them unconscious in some way.

This case is unseemly. A woman refuses to hold up her end of an illegal contract and is killed for it. And it's deemed justified. I just don't get how taking someone's life is a balance for a breach of contract amounting to $150.

Maybe he played Grand Theft Auto too much.

Apparently, if you live in Texas, and going by the arguments in this thread from those who come from there, you should be allowed to kill a person over one penny.