Individuals tend to commit acts that will benefit them in the long run, believing that there are no consequences. Those who choose to kill do so to obtain a personal benefit. According to the Uniform Crime Reports, criminal homicide is “the willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another” (Cole, Smith, & DeJong, 2014, p. 78). One example is the case of twenty-year-old Alan Hruby. In October 2014, he shot and killed his seventeen-year-old sister, his mother and his father in their…
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