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Was George Justified For Killing Lennie Essay

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Was George Justified for killing Lennie? George is not justified in killing Lennie, Lennie would have gone to court and gotten prison. The fact that Lennie was mentally disabled, would have changed his sentence, also George could've protected Lennie from Curly so that he would get a proper trial. If George protected Lennie from Curly he would have just went to prison. In California the sentence for 2nd degree murder is 15 years to life in prison, but you are not typically put to death for it. Lennie was also disabled and the Shouse California Law Group exclaim “ The insanity defense California murder law allows the accused to plead "not guilty by reason of insanity." If he can prove that he only killed because he didn't

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