For centuries, the crime of murder has been defined as the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of a person. For you be convicted of first degree murder, it must be proven that you killed with the intention to kill. Contrary to what is depicted on television shows, motive is not required for conviction. Now some want to make motive an element of the crime. They think that the murder’s feelings about the victim should be an element of the crime. They think that murder should be a greater crime if the killer hates the victim; that a hating killer is worse than a loving killer.
Not only to these people think that motive should be considered, these people think that they should be the ones to pick which motives are worse than others. For example, they consider killing a person because of his or her sexual orientation or race is worse than killing a person because of his or her job or weight. To them, if you kill a person because he or she is homosexual, it is worse than killing a person because he or she is ugly. Then, if you do not agree with their opinion, you are labeled as a homophobe or a racist.
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