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davidual-
There's a brutally pragmatic logic behind it.
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My bad, my frame of reference is Canada/USA.
And even with that qualification, you're still wrong in every one of your assertions in at least some of the 50-odd jurisdictions that includes.
(You might be right for 1st degree murder in some of them (though, if I read correctly, not under US Federal jurisdiction or the Canadian uniform code), but I CBA with more than a cursory google)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_United_States_law
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1111#a
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_(Canadian_law)
itsbruce
jsabine
The Crown Prosecution Service disagrees with you