Not guilty verdict for Cain
NZPA-Reuter Venice Cain, history’s first recorded killer, was found not guilty of premeditated murder at a mock trial by biblical scholars, historians, magistrates and criminologists. The nine-member jury voted 5-4 in favour of Cain, who killed his brother Abel after their parents, Adam and Eve, were banished from the Garden of Eden for eating forbidden fruit.
The jury’s verdict said Cain had acted out of “inevitable human emotion, dictated by other reasons of a social nature.”
The Book of Genesis in the Old Testament says Cain, a farmer, killed Abel because he was jealous that God had preferred the offering made by Abel, a shepherd. The prosecution said Cain, who after the killing told God he was not his brother’s keeper, had planned his crime because of his intense jealousy. ______
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Press, 28 December 1988, Page 16
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