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murder's clumsier cousin, where the body's just as dead but the intent forgot to show up
means The unlawful killing of a person without the premeditated intent that defines murder — death caused recklessly, in a heated moment, or through gross carelessness.
from A plain compound of two old English words: 'man' (a person) and 'slaughter,' which traces back to Old Norse 'slátr,' meaning butcher's meat or the killing of animals — a cousin of the verb 'slay.' So buried in the legal term is an uncomfortably literal image: a human being killed the way livestock is. The word has carried its grim sense since the medieval period, long before the careful legal line between murder and manslaughter was drawn.
- key difference
- No malice aforethought separates it from murder
- two flavors
- Voluntary heat-of-passion or involuntary recklessness
- heat of passion
- Provocation can downgrade murder to manslaughter
- vehicular kind
- Most charges stem from reckless driving deaths
- lighter sentence
- Often years where murder brings life
molly maguires executions — 10 irish-american miners hanged in pennsylvania 1877-1879 for manslaughter of mine bosses
daniel shaver shooting — mesa arizona officer acquitted of manslaughter 2018 for shooting unarmed man in hallway