A week is a long time to wait - crime of passion?

Submitted by Abu Nundik (Canada), Feb 26, 2009 at 18:47

He banged on the door on the 6th and broke a window... six days later - six days! she was murdered.

6 days of premeditation makes this not a crime of passion.

Let's leave the jargon out and just call it murder, pure and simple.

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