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TexasComputerDude wrote:wasn't their a bill recently in the texas legislature that said babies up to 1yo weren't people? or something like that?

No, it was a bill lessening the penalty for murdering a child if he or she is under 1 year old, making it a state jail felony. Of course, the bill never saw the light of day.

The Jews were declared to not be "persons" in the legal sense during Nazi Germany, and the perpetrators of the holocaust claimed that what they did was legal. The courts eventually found them guilty, even though what they were doing was "legal" at the time.

This is the route that the killer's defense would have to go, in order to have a chance to at least lessen the sentence on his client.

I don't believe that this was a "revenge" or "vigilante" killing, but rather an act of using deadly force to prevent what the assailant saw as the commission of a crime against an innocent third person. This doctor was killing babies (apparently late term babies at that) and wasn't stopping. Therefore his killer brought deadly force to prevent the continued commission of this crime.

We don't know what the killer was thinking, but that's my best guess. Texas has "defense to prosecution" laws in cases where deadly force was used to prevent the commission of crimes. If Kansas has such statutes, then if I was this guy's attorney, that's the angle I would be looking at.