It's perfectly legal to kill someone over $150.00 in Texas
by digby
Well, I'm sure she deserved it:
A Texas man, Ezekiel Gilbert, has been acquitted of murder after shooting and killing a 23 year old escort he found on craigslist because she would not have sex with him even after paying her $150 fee.
Gilbert was acquitted under a Texas law that allows you to use deadly force to protect your property during a nighttime theft. In this case, the property was either the $150 or the use-rights to the body of 23 year old Lenora Ivie Frago. Frago said she couldn’t give back the money because she had to give it to the driver who was waiting for her.
Gilbert’s lawyers conceded that he shot Frago but insisted he was not actually trying to kill her. Frago was initialized paralyzed due to a gunshot wound to the neck and later died due to her injury.
Hey, yes means yes. If a man pays good money to rent a vagina and the owner of that vagina then refuses to deliver the goods, there's really no question that you have every right to shoot her. It was 150 bucks, fergawdsakes! Sure it may be illegal to rent that vagina in the first place, but hell, a man's got to draw the line somewhere.
I eagerly await the gun nuts rushing to say that if only the hooker and her pimp had been armed, this wouldn't have happened ...