Can you please tell me how many degrees of the crime of Murder there are in the States,and the different sentences given.
I am confused as to what First Degree and the others are,and are there different degrees of Manslaughter?
2006-10-31 02:43:34 · 5 answers · asked by mentor 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Under the United States Code there is Murder in the first degree and Murder in the second degree. Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, escape, murder, kidnapping, treason, espionage, sabotage, aggravated sexual abuse or sexual abuse, child abuse, burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated as part of a pattern or practice of assault or torture against a child or children; or perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree. Any other murder is murder in the second degree.
Under the United States Code, Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. It is of two kinds. Voluntary Manslaughter is upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion. Involuntary is during the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or in the commission in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection, of a lawful act which might produce death.
2006-10-31 03:06:41 · answer #1 · answered by Judge Dredd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First degree murder, second degree murder, and third degree murder. Manslaughter is another charge that can be brought when somebody is killed. Ask a judge or district attorney in your area to explain the sentencing guidelines.
2006-10-31 02:53:09 · answer #2 · answered by Richard H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 degrees of murder.
2006-10-31 02:48:43 · answer #3 · answered by Michael R 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
will my radiator be charged its got 80 degrees
2006-10-31 04:11:25 · answer #4 · answered by trucker 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ask the crooked cops in St. Louis !!!
2006-10-31 02:46:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋