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

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

Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. Although Congress instructed the Attorney General...

and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such as reckless...

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...

000 sworn law enforcement officers are serving in the United States.[citation needed] About 137,000 of those officers work for federal law enforcement...

reduce a murder charge to a voluntary manslaughter charge. Provocation may be defined by statutory law, by common law, or some combination. It is a possible...

resulted in death. The United States' Model Penal Code (MPC) does not use the common law language of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. Under the MPC, a...

This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States. The listing documents the date the incident resulting...

those jurisdictions. Manslaughter (United States law) Voluntary manslaughter, a form of intentional homicide in American law Manslaughter (comics), a fictional...

acted with criminal intent, so her involuntary manslaughter conviction was ordered to stand. The United States Supreme Court declined to hear the case in...

estimates for the year end. The number of murders includes nonnegligent manslaughter. This list is based on the reporting. In most cases, the city and the...

The Black Swan manslaughter case occurred in Lakewood Ranch, Manatee County, Florida, on September 27, 2020. Ashley Benefield (née Byers), a former ballerina...

criminal law of the United States is a manifold system of laws and practices that connects crimes and consequences. In comparison, civil law addresses...

distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter). As the loss of a human being inflicts an enormous amount of grief for...

murder conviction reduced to a manslaughter conviction instead. A majority of U.S. jurisdictions do not follow the common law rule that a person must retreat...

impaired, manslaughter was the only realistic verdict. The rationale of the defense is that, as a precondition to punishment, the criminal law requires...

charterers, and inspectors; and corporate management. Unlike common law manslaughter, which requires a mens rea or mental state of gross negligence or heat...

Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) Three-strikes law The common-law felonies were: murder, manslaughter, mayhem, robbery, larceny, rape, sodomy, arson,...

link between the existence of laws that allow concealed carry and crime rates. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the right...

family law) can affect the criminal justice process in cases of domestic assaults and killings, in particular by mitigating murder to manslaughter, or otherwise...

involuntary manslaughter (reduced from the jury trial verdict) of eight-month-old baby Matthew Eappen, in Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America...

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

be guilty of manslaughter, a felony of the second degree". The first significant drive to legalize assisted suicide in the United States arose in the...

and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such as reckless...

the United States, abortion is a divisive issue in politics and culture wars, though a majority of Americans support access to abortion. Abortion laws vary...

element in a charge of manslaughter by criminal negligence. Lehman, Jeffrey; Phelps, Shirelle (2005). West's Encyclopedia of American Law, Vol. 7. Detroit:...

aggravated sexual battery, or voluntary manslaughter. In the mid 1990s, numerous US states enacted seven-deadly-sins laws to combat so-called teen "superpredators...

hour. Four students pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Media from all over the United States came to the Butte County courtroom to hear the sentencing...

In the broader context of racism in the United States, mass racial violence in the United States consists of ethnic conflicts and race riots, along with...