The concept of justifiable homicide in criminal law is a defense to culpable homicide (criminal or negligent homicide). Generally, there is a burden to...

many overlapping legal categories, such as murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, assassination, killing in war (either following the laws of war...

manslaughter such as reckless homicide and negligent homicide, which are the least serious, and ending finally in justifiable homicide, which is not a crime....

firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon...

instead be considered a "protected manslaughter" rather than a "criminal homicide." Welch further argues that Laban's false accusations against the brothers...

Internet homicide, also called internet assassination, refers to killing in which victim and perpetrator met online, in some cases having known each other...

Cooke's death ruled in favor of Franklin, stating that his death was a justifiable homicide. Cooke's family and many fans worldwide have since questioned the...

Negligent homicide is a criminal charge brought against a person who, through criminal negligence, allows another person to die. Other times, an intentional...

or child homicide is the homicide of an individual who is a minor. In many legal jurisdictions it is considered an aggravated form of homicide. The age...

Police Department. Retrieved 9 February 2017. "Expanded Homicide Data Table 14 Justifiable Homicide by Weapon, Law Enforcement, 2010-2014". Federal Bureau...

imperfect self-defense. In the case of self-defense, it is called a "justifiable homicide". Unlawful killings without malice or intent are considered manslaughter...

Lust murder, also called sexual homicide, is a homicide which occurs in tandem with either an overt sexual assault or sexually symbolic behavior. Lust...

Vehicular homicide is a crime that involves the death of a person other than the driver as a result of either criminally negligent or murderous operation...

The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per...

that of justifying homicide in self-defense. However, the existence in a legal code of such a provision (of justifiable homicide in self-defense pertaining...

self-defense, which is thus viewed as a killing but not a crime (justifiable homicide). Abraham D. Sofaer, former federal judge for the US District Court...

mother from a vicious beating by Stompanato. His death was ruled as justifiable homicide because he had been killed in self-defense. John Stompanato Jr.,...

A coroner's inquest was held on April 11, during which the homicide was deemed justifiable and Crane was exonerated of any wrongdoing. She was released...

coroner's jury concluded that Hampton's and Clark's deaths were justifiable homicides. A civil lawsuit was later filed on behalf of the survivors and...

Consensual homicide refers to a case when one person kills another, with the consent of the person being killed. The most common form of consensual homicide is...

manslaughter such as reckless homicide and negligent homicide, which are the least serious, and ending finally in justifiable homicide, which is not a crime....

trying to rob one of his gambling houses; this incident was ruled a justifiable homicide. In 1967, King was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for stomping...

categorized as insanity. Some use the term murder–suicide to refer to homicide–suicide, which can include manslaughter and is therefore more encompassing...

exist that are insufficient to constitute a complete legal defense to homicide, but nonetheless partially excuse the act that resulted in death. The United...

from questions of privacy and "the greater good", the concept of justifiable homicide, and problems caused by working with limited information programs...

the lethal use of force by the agents would eventually be ruled justifiable homicide. John Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903, at 2053 Cooper Street...

with the suffix -cide, from caedere, "to cut down, to kill." Also see homicide, genocide, infanticide, matricide, and regicide. In the U.S., most crimes...

manslaughter. First, there is voluntary manslaughter which is an intentional homicide committed in "sudden heat of passion" as the result of adequate provocation...

Eratosthenes was justifiable homicide, rather than murder. The case was heard before the Delphinion, the court which ruled on cases of justifiable homicide. Lysias...

of Investigation special agent Robert Ressler, who used the term serial homicide in 1974 in a lecture at Police Staff College, in Bramshill, Hampshire,...