What is the difference between first, second, third, and fourth degree murder?

Question

Can you please tell me what each of them are?

Answer 1

First degree: killing with the intent to kill. Usually requires premeditation. Also includes felony murder - an unplanned murder that occurs during the commission of a felony (example is defendant burglarizes a house and during the burglary kills the homeowner - no premeditation but committed during a felony).

Second degree: killing with the intent to do harm but not the intent to kill. Example - shooting someone in the leg with the intent to wound but not kill, and the victim bleeds to death.

Third degree: killing that resulted from indifference or negligence. Usually there must be a legal duty (parent - child), but can also include crimes like driving drunk and causing a fatal accident.

Fourth degree: felony murder committed by an accomplice. Same as felony murder, but instead of one burglar there are two. Burglar A kills the homeowner and that is first degree murder. Burglar B did not take part in the killing but did take part in the burglary and that is fourth degree.

These are old terms that are now all but useless except in studying the history of criminal law. The definition of murder is now a matter of whatever the statute in a given state says, even though some may still use the terms.

Answer 2

Second Degree Murders

Answer 3

First degree murder: Killing someone with the intention to do so.

Second degree murder: Killing someone with the intention to hurt, but without intention to kill. Say, a mother gets mad at her son, and hits in the head to teach him a lesson, but then the son dies from blunt trauma.

Third degree murder: Killing someone without any intention to do any harm. Say, someone is running at the top of a ravine and accidentally trips some random guy standing at the tip of it and then that other guy falls off so he gets killed.

Fourth degree murder: Killing someone with an accomplice. Say, someone chokes a baby to death, and then asks a friend to throw him into a plastic bag and throw it down the alley, then that friend does so.

Answer 4

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What is the difference between first, second, third, and fourth degree murder?
Can you please tell me what each of them are?

Answer 5

Third Degree Murder

Answer 6

No difference. Murder is murder. The only difference are the angles. You need to keep in mind, however, that there are 360 degrees in a single revolution. So you could kill in 1 degree, 2 degrees, or 3 degrees, but if you get creative, you could find ways to kill in 90 degrees, 180 degrees, or hell you could even do a 360 murder (I think they already do 360 degree murders in call of duty if I am not mistaken). However, I guess people don't get creative with their murders nowadays, so they hardly ever change the angles of their murders.

Answer 7

By US defination:

"Murder in the first degree is the wilful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated killing of a human being."
"Murder in the second degree is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice. but without premeditation and deliberation." - http://www.law.ua.edu/colquitt/crimmain/crimmisc/jurymur.htm

"Murder in the third degree is killing someone without premeditation and intent through inherently dangerous acts without regard for human life." - http://www.nvo.com/beaulier/minnesotamurder1homicideoffenses/

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Answer 8

um i dont know

Answer 9

who knows

Answer 10

There are actually 4 kinds of homicide: Felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy. It makes little difference to the victim which sort they die of; the classification is mostly for the benefit of lawyers.

Answer 11

I can not explain what each of them are but the diffrence would be three degrees.