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2022-10-10

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – H – homicide &manslaughter & murder

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Ref.: http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/#683854 2020-10-13

 

Dictionary.com.

ออกเสียง Homicide = ‘HOM-uh-sahyd’ or ‘HOH-muh sahyd’

ออกเสียง manslaughter = ‘MAN-slaw-ter’

ออกเสียง murder = ‘MUR-der’

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Homicide & manslaughter & murder

Homicide, the killing of one human being by another,

is a general term that includes manslaughter are Murder.

 

Homicide and manslaughter are synonym in general use,

although, in legal terms,

 

manslaughter is referred to

as the unlawful killing of a human being without premeditated (aforethought) intent.

 

Murder is the killing of a person with malice aforethought.

Special statutory definitions and degrees of murder

are common in the United States.

The killing of someone, whether accidental or planned, is homicide:

an accidental death from a traffic occurrence is homicide.

 

Some legal jurisdictions would hold that

a traffic death caused by caused by careless driving

would be manslaughter

but one resulting from the fault of the victim would be homicide.

 

Murder is generally a killing planned ahead

and committed with deliberated intent.

 

Dictionary.com

Manslaughter vs. Murder

Differences In Intent and Degree

 

How can a person cause the death of another

without the act being considered a murder?

 

In US law, it can come down to differences between manslaughter and murder

—which comes down to differences in intent and degree.

 

What does manslaughter mean?

Manslaughter, simply defined, is

“the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.”

 

US law designates two types 

of manslaughter: voluntary and involuntary.

 

Let’s break these two terms down.

Voluntary manslaughter vs. involuntary manslaughter

 

Voluntary manslaughter can refer to

when the accused kills a person,

but is deemed to have been provoked by the victim,

as during the “heat of passion” during an altercation.

 

Involuntary manslaughter generally applies

where death is the unintentional (involuntary)

consequence of the actions of the accused.

 

Reckless driving, as while texting or after drinking,

for instance, can result in the death of other people,

but the driver didn’t first set out on the road

with deliberate intent to harm them

—and so may be considered involuntary manslaughter.

 

How is murder defined?

Murder is “the killing of another human being

under conditions specifically covered in law.”

 

US law also distinguishes between two major types,

or degrees, of murder:

first-degree (murder one) and second-degree (murder two).

 

First-degree murder vs. second-degree murder

First-degree murder involves

the planning (premeditation) of the act

or killing that happens when another crime is being committed

(e.g., robbery, arson).

Second-degree murder involves

the intent to murder someone,

but the murder didn’t take place with

deliberation or premeditation beforehand.

 

Let’s say someone got into a major verbal fight

with a neighbor and got so angry,

they grabbed a gun and shot the person dead.

 

This incident involves intent to kill

but not as a result of planning the murder ahead of time.

 

What is third-degree murder?

Three states—Florida, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania

—currently further divide murders into a third degree.

 

The laws vary,

but third-degree murder in these states can include felony murders

(a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended,

it occurred during the commission or

attempted commission of a felony, as robbery)

 

most states classify felony murders as first-degree murders.

Third-degree murders can also be homicides

that occur as a result to indifference to human life

(sometimes, referred to as depraved-heart murders).

 

Fairlex Trivia Dictionary

homicide, murder, manslaughter

= The general term for the killing of a person

by another is homicide;

 

murder is either the intentional killing

or the malicious killing of another,

 

while manslaughter is the unintentional,

accidental killing of another through carelessness.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Trend Watch - Manslaughter

When the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor resumed.

When: Lookups spiked on October 17, 2011.

Why: “Involuntary manslaughter,”

the charge against Michael Jackson’s doctor,

 

Conrad Murray, received a lot of attention this week

as the doctor’s trial resumed.

 

Murray is accused of improperly administering the anesthetic drug Propofol that killed the pop icon.

The defense team is expected to argue that

the dose given to Jackson was too small to cause death.

 

Manslaughter is

“the crime of killing a person without intending to do so.”

It’s a lesser crime than murder, which implies deliberate killing.

 

Farlex Trivia Dictionary.

Homicide murder, manslaughter

The general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide;

murder is either the intentional killing

or the malicious killing of another,

while manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness.

See also related terms for slaughter.

 

Farlex Trivia Dictionary.

slaughter

fatstock - Livestock fattened for slaughter.

massacre - Comes from Latin mazacrium/masacrium, “slaughter.”

slaughter - From Old Norse, meaning “butcher’s meat.”

homicide, murder, manslaughter

  • The general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or the malicious killing of another, while manslaughter is the unintentional,

accidental killing of another through carelessness.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Choose the Right Synonym for murder

Verb

KILL, SLAY, MURDER, ASSASSINATE, DISPATCH, EXECUTE

mean to deprive of life.

KILL merely states the fact of death

caused by an agency in any manner.

killed in an accident frost killed the plants

 

SLAY is a chiefly literary term

implying deliberateness and violence

but not necessarily motive.

 

slew thousands of the Philistines

 

MURDER specifically implies stealth and motive and premeditation

and therefore full moral responsibility.

convicted of murdering a rival

 

ASSASSINATE applies to deliberate killing

openly or secretly often for

political motives. terrorists assassinated the Senator

 

DISPATCH stresses quickness and directness

in putting to death. dispatched the sentry with one bullet

 

EXECUTE stresses putting to death as a legal penalty. executed by lethal gas.