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Quote by: Mia And in what manner was the intent to kill established?

Four days after the arson, several students jumped a white classmate, Justin Barker, knocking him unconscious before stomping and kicking him. Source: CNN

I think it's a reasonably arguable point that if one is "stomping and kicking" someone after they are already unconscious that their intent could easily be interpreted as extremely serious. If a person is clearly unconscious one cannot know the extent of injuries already sustained, and in this case they of coarse didn't know, yet continued to "stomp and kick". As I sited above, one can be killed in this fashion. To me the fact that this kid they were beating was already unconscious with unknowable injuries and yet they continued to stomp and kick clearly shows intent to do malicious harm.