"In this state, whether we like it or not, we have very forward-leaning 'stand your ground', self-defense, justifiable homicide laws," Normand said.
"It's about 'Stand Your Ground,'" the "justifiable homicide" laws passed in more than 20 states, beginning with Florida.
Crudely put, they think that we should understand law to claim only the sort of authority it would be justifiable for law to have.
Missouri should also revise its justifiable-homicide laws, which, as Yishai Schwartz explains in the New Republic, make it "almost impossible" to convict police officers who claim they acted in self-defence.
While the plight of the Iraqi people under Saddam Hussein was certainly a despicable situation, an invasion solely to change an internal political situation in another country is neither justified nor justifiable under existing international law.
"For them, these (killings) are not justifiable under the laws we have, but my conscience — how can I put this — this is something that I can justify, because I am defending my family".
The first is the FBI's count of "justifiable homicides by law enforcement", based on police reports submitted by state and local agencies.
The FBI publishes an annual record of "justifiable homicides" by law enforcement officers, which depends on police departments voluntarily submitting their totals.
The local police in Sanford, Fla., ruled the shooting justifiable under a law that was created to give the benefit of the doubt to people who shoot their guns in public areas and then claim self-defense.
The deaths referred to as "law enforcement homicides" in the BJS report and what the FBI calls "justifiable homicides by law enforcement" are roughly equivalent, Planty and a second senior BJS official told the Guardian, in part because nearly all homicides by police, if adjudicated at all, are deemed "justifiable", meaning not criminal.
