Reply #105: Please look carefully at the replies I am responding to

[slackmaster]

I already stated my personal opposition to the death penalty in my first and only reply to the OP. I did answer "Yes" in the poll because of what the law says. Any arson-caused death in California is automatically a first degree murder case. Any first degree murder in which a police officer or firefighter dies while on duty is automatically a capital murder case. That's a slam-dunk regardless of how you or I feel about the death penalty.

I am picking out responses in which people say that a charge of first degree murder is inappropriate for deaths that result from an arson fire. That interpretation is clearly not correct.