In the English law of homicide, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder, the differential being between levels of fault based on the mens rea...

Corporate manslaughter is a criminal offence in English law, being an act of homicide committed by a company or organisation. In general, in English criminal...

Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is...

Manslaughter is a crime in the United States. Definitions can vary among jurisdictions, but manslaughter is invariably the act of causing the death of...

Voluntary manslaughter is the killing of a human being in which the offender acted during the heat of passion, under circumstances that would cause a...

Commission: 2007:ISBN 978-1-877316-37-1 Fighting words Gay panic defense Imperfect self-defense Self control theory in crime Manslaughter in English law...

Pedicide, child murder, child manslaughter, or child homicide is the homicide of an individual who is a minor. In many legal jurisdictions it is considered...

recklessness. In the United Kingdom, common law gross negligent manslaughter covers the same conduct as negligent homicide. In the United States, all states define...

R v Kennedy [2007] UKHL 38 is a House of Lords case on manslaughter in English law. It established that where a person supplies a controlled drug to a...

their wives in the United States, about 75 women killed their husbands indicating a 3:4 ratio of mariticide to uxoricide. Under English common law it was a...

English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures...

Industrial manslaughter, for example in Australian Capital Territory law, is a crime where the action or inaction of an employer results in the death of...

a very wide scope. There are three main forms of manslaughter in English law: voluntary manslaughter, cases which would otherwise amount to murder but...

convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Michael Robert Ryan murdered his mother in 1987 before going on an armed rampage in Hungerford, England. David...

Commonwealth of Kentucky". Justia Law. September 3, 1998. Retrieved 23 September 2020. "§ 163.118¹ Manslaughter in the first degree". www.oregonlaws.org...

refer to: Manslaughter in English law, a homicide offence in English Law which does not amount to murder Culpable homicide, a legal term in various (mostly...

of a motor vehicle. In cases of criminal negligence, the defendant is commonly charged with unintentional vehicular manslaughter. Vehicular homicide is...

term murder–suicide to refer to homicide–suicide, which can include manslaughter and is therefore more encompassing. According to an analysis of the London...

whereas in law, feticide frequently refers to a criminal offense, in medicine the term generally refers to a part of an abortion procedure in which a...

negligence in its degree. Gross negligence is used as a standard for criminal law, for example, under manslaughter in English law. Under common law, criminal...

under the homicide laws which are established in places (i.e. countries, states, etc.) in which parricides occur. According to the law, in most countries...

as her victims, lie in bed with them and hold them close to her body as they died. Another example is Harold Shipman, an English family doctor, who made...

In English law, diminished responsibility is one of the partial defenses that reduce the offense from murder to manslaughter if successful (termed "voluntary"...

food). In modern English law, the latter is always considered a crime, even in the most trying circumstances. The case of R v Dudley and Stephens, in which...

killing his brother. In Greek mythology, Cassiphone, the daughter of Odysseus and Circe, killed her half-brother and husband Telemachus in revenge after he...

categories, such as murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, assassination, killing in war (either following the laws of war or as a war crime), euthanasia...

mitigate to a lesser offense such as manslaughter, and under which circumstances this defense can be used. In many common law jurisdictions, provocation is a...

that English law allowed for alternative remedies in some cases, and specifically those based on "unlawful act" and "gross negligence" manslaughter which...

could not try anybody, and so he refused to plead. At that time under English law, if a prisoner refused to plead, they would be treated identically to...

Grotius's works on the law of war strictly forbade assassinations, arguing that killing was only permissible on the battlefield. In the modern world, the...