Key legal question
Whether the defendant's conduct was attempted multiple murder rather than attempted multiple intentional killing
Extracted holding
The act had to be qualified as attempted multiple murder because the external and internal circumstances showed special ruthlessness.
Extracted reasoning
He used a gasoline-laden vehicle to kill an indeterminate number of people for egotistical and vindictive motives; his despair did not morally mitigate the act because it stemmed from his own personality disorder and not from a blameworthy conflict situation.