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>>YeGobl+(OP)
The most bonkers thing here to me is giving a man a death sentence because of a believed shaken baby death that he promptly took to the hospital.

>>jncfhn+Ze
That is in no way evidence against it being murder. Abusers do that kind of thing all the time.

>>flango+ep
Shaken baby syndrome is very unlikely to be the result of malicious abuse though. It’s almost always a deeply frustrated parent or caregiver who is desperate, trying to assert control over a screaming infant, and does not understand that this could kill them, or at least thinks they will not. It is child abuse, but hardly of the same nature as most people assume with the term.

Death sentence strikes me as an idiotic punishment.

>>jncfhn+dr
Yes, assuming the perp took the victim promptly to the hospital, I don't see why it should be qualified as murder unless there are antecedents.

I can relate to wanting to silence something very distressing/aggravating by any means necessary but as a Society we've decided that adults should know better and should be held responsible for such mistake/accident. And I tend to agree. So manslaughter it is.