Legal question: dilemna?

Question

A legal puzzle.

In a row between a pair of Siamese twins and a third party one of the twins picks up a gun and shoots the third party dead.

How would justice be performed? Could one be hanged and the other not if the death penalty were given? Could one be sent to prison and the other not?

How would the law treat this case?

Answer 1

What drives you to think of such cockamamie questions?

Answer 2

I would say it depends where they are connected. How may hands do they have?

Glad to see you getting of the politics for a bit. They will reduce your life by many years.

Enjoy the evening

add*  Thought about it. The one shooting will get life for murder and the other will get a sentence as accomplice

Answer 3

This is one for Lise, but one could say the other one could have prevented it, or not and as such being seen as an accomplish...........

Answer 4

What a mine field that would be for legal eagles.

I suppose both of them, because the other could have refused to go along with the other twin to do the deed.

Here in the UK they would be put in prison for life. Life here means 25 years or more depending on the severity of the case, but I think like America we should say  Life should mean their natural life.

Answer 5

My mind is spinning trying to work this out...

It seems impossible to find out? As they both have the same DNA.

Answer 6

Wow!  That's deep.  I have no idea and now my brain is hurting.

Answer 7

Lol Honey one will get life and the other one will be charge for prevting the cause of Justice,I think so.xxxx