Is that how it works? I always thought that attempt = try but failed. If it succeeds it’s an assassination, not an assassination attempt (same as murder v attempted murder) (sincere question)
yeah, you can speak about “attempting” to do something before knowing the outcome, so i don’t think failure is baked in. i can’t really speak to the legal concept.
but the book also includes the lincoln assassination. i guess a book of only failed attempts was too thin even for a lego history coffee table book, so they had to pad it out a bit with the successful ones.
When you do something in your nth attempt the last one is still included in the number of attempts. The reason for the different rubrics is to differentiate between failed and successful attempts (difference in scale between actually murdering someone or trying and failing to do so).
some attempts succeed
Is that how it works? I always thought that attempt = try but failed. If it succeeds it’s an assassination, not an assassination attempt (same as murder v attempted murder) (sincere question)
yeah, you can speak about “attempting” to do something before knowing the outcome, so i don’t think failure is baked in. i can’t really speak to the legal concept.
but the book also includes the lincoln assassination. i guess a book of only failed attempts was too thin even for a lego history coffee table book, so they had to pad it out a bit with the successful ones.
Ty for explanation o7
When you do something in your nth attempt the last one is still included in the number of attempts. The reason for the different rubrics is to differentiate between failed and successful attempts (difference in scale between actually murdering someone or trying and failing to do so).
I see, thanks