We know pain can be controlled. But in general cerebral palsy does not cause pain, although it is certainly debilitating. I think Latimer lied through his teeth about his daughter's condition. You see parents every whose children are in distress doing anything to alleviate their circumstances and enable them. They love their children. Only monsters resort to murder.
What did Latimer do, he GASSED her, the Mengele solution, the ONLY difference is in the scale, and the familiarity of the victim.. as someone who in his estimation was unfit to live.
He got off lightly for a callous, repugnant crime. He's a coward, in an utter state of denial of the gravity of his actions... as is the court system of the dangerous precedent, the slippery slope that qualifying and excusing deliberate, premeditated murder of a disabled child establishes.
There were submissions to the court by disabled groups, by individuals with cerebral palsy specifically on this issue.
An admission of premeditation is not hard to prove at all. Motive, in malice means nothing in assertaining guilt, if in fact premedition is admitted... it is a moot point. You don't have to prove motive. The facts of the case spoke for themselves. All of the posts in this forum have not contested this. What has been argued is whether premeditated murder is EXCUSABLE, and the law sais, rightly it NEVER is.
