Ok title pretty much sums it up. Its a pretty stupid question but me and a couple buddies were joking about Russian roulette last night after a couple of drinks and it got us thinking.
Is there any law out there (living in the states) that would prevent someone from paying 2 individuals to play a game that will lead to the death of one of them? Would it be classified as murder? I tried to google it and couldn't find anything.
this is obviously assuming you could find to WILLING people.
Note: it is still completely illegal to kill someone else while playing but this is the closes to an answer I found
Is there any law out there (living in the states) that would prevent someone from paying 2 individuals to play a game that will lead to the death of one of them? Would it be classified as murder? I tried to google it and couldn't find anything.
this is obviously assuming you could find to WILLING people.
Note: it is still completely illegal to kill someone else while playing but this is the closes to an answer I found
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In Commonwealth v. Malone, 47 A.2d 445 (1946), a Pennsylvania teenager's conviction for murder as a result of shooting a friend during a game of Russian roulette was upheld by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The court ruled that "When an individual commits an act of gross recklessness without regard to the probability that death to another is likely to result, that individual exhibits the state of mind required to uphold a conviction of manslaughter even if the individual did not intend for death to ensue."[2] It is worth noting, however, that in the Malone case the teenagers involved played a modified version of Russian roulette in which they took turns aiming and pulling the trigger of the revolver at each other, rather than at their own heads. It has not yet been established whether simply participating in a game of Russian roulette in which another participant kills themselves with their own hand would constitute manslaughter or some lesser form of conspiracy or homicide. |
