Sentence examples for killing manslaughter from inspiring English sources

The recent Coroners and Justice Act – to mention just one of many – contained significant amendments to the law on murder, mercy killing, manslaughter and assisted suicide.

The MPA defines "knife crime" as follows: All offences of murder, attempted murder, threats to kill, manslaughter, infanticide, wounding or carrying out an act endangering life, GBH without intent, ABH and other injury, sexual assault, rape, robbery where a knife or sharp instrument (defined as any instrument that can pierce the skin) has been used.

In most legal systems wilfully murdering someone receives a harsher sentence (murder in the first degree) than accidentally killing them (manslaughter).

When I think about Oscar Grant's killing (adjudged involuntary manslaughter) by a white BART policeman at BART's Oakland, California Fruitvale station, I worry about my family's risks even in the progressive San Francisco Bay Area.

According to the German penal law, the difference between manslaughter and murder is that murder is an action carried out after previous deliberation with the aim of killing a person, while manslaughter is an act of impulse, resulting in the death of a person.

In Scripture God distinguishes between murder (when one person intentionally kills another) and manslaughter (unintentional killing).

Jurors at Portsmouth circuit court found Stephen Rankin guilty of voluntary manslaughter for killing William Chapman in April last year.

Governor Celeste also granted clemency to Antoinette Taylor, 48, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for killing her abusive father.

A former soldier, he has just been released from prison after serving time for manslaughter after killing a local drunk who berates his pregnant wife.

Last year, Daschle stuck his neck out for Janklow when the governor-turned-congressman stood trial for manslaughter after killing a motorcyclist in a traffic accident.

In 1996, the Springboks caused a scandal by fielding a white player convicted of manslaughter for killing a black farm worker.