How the fuck is there a statute of limitations for rape in New York?

[Drich]

Yes It is a legal term like murder.

Murder is to unlawfully take life. There is a difference between murder and killing. a cop may kill someone in the line of duty but may never murder someone. the physical act/evidence being the same.

Wrong.

All things being equal, murder is always murder. The fact that the US justice system rarely charges a cop for murder, is a reflection on the system and has nothing to do with the definition.

Murder is prohibited under natural law, which supersedes US law, which is why a particular document states that the right to life is unalienable.

Does the state ever sanction taking a life?

IDK like say:
Abortion, Death penalty, cases of lawful self defense, acts of war, the act of policing under certain rules or under specific guidelines.. Are you saying each and every life EVER taken by the hand of another is always murder, no matter what?

Do you know that is not how the legal statute reads?

If you know how the statute reads, you can say murder is always murder. but you must also make an allowance and say killing is not always murder. Because there are very well defined instances where the state sanctions the taking of human life and does not consider it murder.

that is what is being said in the quote you highlighted.