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Imagine. Imagine you know the man who killed your sister. You know him because he’s the father of their children. She was holding one of them, in fact, when he fired the fatal shots.

Imagine you often see him in your neighborhood. You see him because he bonded out. He bonded out because he was charged with murder (minimum bond: $14,000) rather than capital murder (minimum bond: $50,000). He was charged with murder because he was not committing another crime while killing her. In other words, if you kill someone while trying to steal their wallet, the charge is capital murder; if you kill them just because you don’t like them, or you’re jealous or just because, it’s murder.

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