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Want to argue a mitigating factor and he had was not mature and she was not mature and you want to get away from first-degree murder and you want to argue the aggravating and mitigating factors to get away from the killing which voluntary manslaughter that is the heat of passion. they were in the vehicle at the time. and the mother is telling the boyfriend that i dont want you to see my daughter and things heat up and the daughter is in the back saying take her out and it is all impulsive. in th...

Housed in the residential treatment unit. but it was clear that not only does he still struggle with what he did, he worries about what he still might do. >> its heinous. if i had -- i believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. if i had my way, i believe they should take my life.even though there were extenuating circumstances that were both mitigating and aggravating, that my judge was very pointed to point out, i still think having crossed that line, its therefore that much easier t...

He could have handed it over to a tsa agent. he didnt do any of that. but what was more aggravating, was that the victim then goes over to a bench, get herself straight with her belongings, and he did the same thing right next to her. he looked right at her and knew that was the same person right in front of him. >> even with all this video, the odds are pretty long theyll find a thief that has flown off to who knows where. >> there literally could be thousands of passengers flying out at any gi...

Housed in the residential treatment unit. but it was clear that not only does he still struggle with what he did, he worries about what he still might do. >> oh, its -- its heinous. if i -- i believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. if i had my way i believe they should take my life. even though there were extenuating circumstances that were both mitigating and aggravating, my judge was very pointed out i still think that having crossed that line, it would therefore be that much eas...

The delays, how have they affected people with ptsd? >> its interesting, victor, that this process going on with the v.a., this malady is actually creating more ptsd and aggravating ptsd. one of the fundamental causes is abandonment. at some point, the warrior feels abandoned by the military service that he or she is in. in a firefight, or we dont get resupply. in my case we didnt even have ammunition. so that sense of abandonment leaves the warrior on their own. they have to make their own deci...

>> when i first viewed that video, i thought, this guy had several opportunities to do the right thing. he had several opportunities to stop the lady. he could have handed it over to a tsa agent. he didnt do any of that. but what was more aggravating, was that the victim then goes over to a bench, get herself straight with her belongings, and he did the same thing right next to her. he looked right at her and knew that was the same person right in front of him. >> even with all this video, the o...

The weekend and in this case, it is looking like it is going to be tried as a hate crime. i wonder if that puts it into the category for you that the death penalty needs to be considered. >> well, the death penalty needs to be considered when there is a homicide. i think that it has to have limits on it, and i say that the supreme court has made clear that there has to be a consideration of all of the aggravating and the mitigating circumstances, and it is unfortunate to try to speculate before ...

Hope and pray, continue to hope and pray that their loved ones will come back. one of the crew, one of the wives said shes used to them going away for a long time and she said theyre telling the kids hes still at work. theyre hoping and praying for that. people are finding ways to cope with this. that means they dont have to face and accept some very hard things. and of course they say as well this waiting period, the fact that the pings have stopped, that it will be down to this submersible veh...

U.s. military. i think its just the sheer numbers, around certainly that nothing that comes out of the water in killeen or the conditions down there. these are completely different sets of leaders. completely different units than that were there in the time of major nidal hasan. so i dont think that theres anything that can be conclusively pointed at fort hood as either leading towards or aggravating the factors that led to this situation. >> brigadier general mark kimmitt, thank you sir for you...

Treatment unit. but it was clear that not only does he still struggle with what he did, he worries about what he still might do. >> its heinous. if i had -- i believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. if i had my way, i believe they should take my life. even though there were extenuating circumstances that were both mitigating and aggravating, that my judge was very pointed to point out, i still think having crossed that line it would therefore be that much easier to go back across. ...