Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the defendant's conduct was attempted multiple murder rather than attempted multiple intentional killing
Decisione estratta
The act had to be qualified as attempted multiple murder because the external and internal circumstances showed special ruthlessness.
Motivazione estratta
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.