premeditation

The issues revolved around the degree of planning and premeditation, amount of mental and physical suffering inflicted on Holly and MacPhail's motivation for having a knife, the court heard.

He acted with deliberation and premeditation, and in asking to be billed and paying for the ticket was trying to avoid investigations into the gifts, the judge added.

“In his plea, Daniel admitted that he willfully, deliberately, and with premeditation, murdered the victim in order to maintain his status within the Aryan Brotherhood.”

She told jurors that if, however, they concluded that Romo killed her, it was not with the premeditation required for first-degree murder.

In “The Thing at Hand,” DiFranco embraces living completely in the moment, beyond identity or premeditation.