Why was Muzzammil Hassan charged with second-degree murder instead of first-degree murder?”
Home Comment at end 16th February, 2009 “I HAVE BEHEADED MY WIFE” From Homeland Security US (Northeast Intelligence Network) comes this horrifying information. Beheading in Buffalo – at Muslim TV Station By Douglas J. Hagmann 13 February 2009: Muzzammil “Mo” HASSAN, the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, a Buffalo, NY based Islamic television Network he helped pioneer in 2004 amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light, reportedly admitted to police that he beheaded his wife at the television station yesterday afternoon.The victim was identified as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, who just last month, filed for and received an order of protection against her husband. According to police, HASSAN walked i# TO NEW YORK, where Muzzammil Hassan, founder of an Islamic television station in upstate New York aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes, has confessed to beheading his wife, one (and a bit) Aasiya Hassan, say reports. It’s bit like the head of the Catho
Paul, Wikipedia has the answer: 1. First Degree Murder: Murder involving special circumstances, such as murder of a police officer, judge, fireman or witness to a crime; multiple murders; and torture or especially heinous murders. Note that a “regular” premeditated murder, absent such special circumstances, is not a first-degree murder; murders by poison or “lying in wait” are not per se first-degree murders. … 2. Second Degree Murder: Any premeditated murder or felony murder that does not involve special circumstances. That’s the standard in New York, where this crime occurred. In some other states, first-degree simply indicates premeditated. Nearly a week after her husband allegedly cut off her head, Aasiya Zubair Hassan still smiles confidently into the camera for the high-resolution publicity photo available on the website of the TV station the couple started. If you download the photo, you’ll discover that the filename is “Mo – Assiya – 3 – High.jpg”. It’s not clear whether “Ass
