'It could have been first-degree murder:' Man gets 15 years for planned attempted murder

When a 60-year-old man was hit 15 times with a dumbbell, the only thing preventing the attack from being a case of first-degree murder was that the victim survived, according to a Saskatoon Crown prosecutor. 
Shortly after the beating, Derek Allan Wayne Watkins confessed to police that he had planned to kill Richard Lisko, Crown prosecutor Gary Parker said.
“It would have been a first-degree murder charge if the victim had died, and (Watkins) had done everything necessary to kill