What is Manslaughter?
Posted on:1/3/2006
| Manslaughter, also called criminally negligent homicide in the United States or culpable homicide in Scotland, arises when criminal liability as a homicide is imposed on those who kill. |
Either when they do not intend to cause death or serious injury but cause the death of another through recklessness or criminal negligence (not recognized in Australia); or
where a person intentionally kills another but is not liable for murder either because he or she falls within the scope of a mitigatory defense, such as provocation or diminished capacity that will reduce what would otherwise have been murder to manslaughter, or under English law, because he or she was the survivior of a suicide pact.
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