Key legal question
Whether the conduct should be qualified as attempted murder rather than attempted intentional killing.
Extracted holding
The overall circumstances showed special ruthlessness; eventual intent does not preclude murder qualification.
Extracted reasoning
The cantonal court erred by assessing motive, purpose, and execution separately and by treating eventual intent as excluding special ruthlessness. The defendant used the child as an object of frustration and acted with exceptional coldness, brutality, and disregard for human life.