(v. t.) The killing of one human being by another.
(v. t.) One who kills another; a manslayer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rates for homicide have remained steady and have a distinct profile.
(2) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(3) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
(4) "They have sown confusion in police departments about when to make arrests, made it more difficult for prosecutors to bring charges in cases of deadly violence and, most importantly, they have been responsible for a major increase in so-called 'justifiable homicides.'
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Global trade unions called the collapse ‘mass industrial homicide’, while Vogue magazine described it as ‘tragedy on an epic scale’.
(6) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
(7) On Thursdays the black male-white male ratio for homicide was 1.43 and for suicide, 1.26.
(8) Two remarks from previous analyses are then made: the underestimation of the factor of depression in the homicidal act; and the need for reforming the practice of penal psychiatric survey.
(9) Violence has replaced communicable diseases as the primary cause of juvenile mortality and, currently, over 77% of adolescent deaths are caused by accidents, suicide, and homicide.
(10) CeaseFire placed two interrupters on the ground, and in 2004 there were no homicides recorded at all.
(11) Suicide was more common on Mondays; homicide on Saturdays and Sundays.
(12) This violent potential was reflected by the presence among the alcoholics involved of more past and present antisocial traits, a higher rating on the Nicol's scale of violence, more offences committed against the person and homicidal behaviour.
(13) As a result, the political situation is unlikely to change in the failing state of 8.5 million people, which is home to the world's highest homicide rate and a transit point for much of the South American cocaine heading to the US.
(14) If there are features typical of suicide, the medico-legal analysis of the pathomorphological findings essentially may contribute to the differentiation from homicidal injuries.
(15) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
(16) Although the causative role of mental illness in relation to homicide remains a controversial and debatable issue, recent studies indicate that a significant number of homicidal adults suffer from serious mental illness, more specifically psychosis.
(17) The "work" includes cases in which he believes the Mexican army is responsible for some of the plentiful homicides and disappearances.
(18) Every one centred on the same group of middle-aged, mostly unprepossessing policemen in Stockholm's National Homicide Department.
(19) Second, we used detailed data from police files to examine the same associations for a subset of homicides in south central Los Angeles.
(20) In unnatural death cases the BAC under 0.05% was found in 64% of the suicides, 62% of the accidents, 54% of the homicides and 51% of the drug intoxications.
Manslaughter
Definition:
(n.) The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
(n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger.
Example Sentences:
(1) He got away with a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and served five years.
(2) However the trial, which ended in July, cleared Harwood of manslaughter.
(3) Three G4S guards were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
(4) Lambie said on Monday that she would oppose the social services legislation amendment bill, which would remove welfare payments for people in psychiatric institutions who have been charged with a serious offence such as rape, manslaughter or murder.
(5) The Crown Prosecution Service is still deciding whether to charge him with manslaughter.
(6) The prosecutor of Ragusa, in south-east Sicily, is reportedly waiting for autopsies to be carried out before deciding whether to investigate two men, suspected of being the smugglers, on board for either murder or manslaughter.
(7) She shrugs off the attempted manslaughter conviction - for which she served a year in prison after stabbing a boss she claimed was sexually harassing her when she was 16.
(8) BP is accused of “manslaughter” and “environmental crimes” among other charges by the project.
(9) An inquest last year ruled that Harwood unlawfully killed him, but a trial jury acquitted the officer of manslaughter in July.
(10) Harwood, 45, who was found not guilty of Tomlinson's manslaughter on Thursday, had repeatedly been accused of using excessive force during his career, including claims he punched, throttled, kneed and unlawfully arrested people.
(11) He directed them to acquit Payne of manslaughter and of intending to pervert the course of justice.
(12) This was the most important impulse for the development of the legal medicine in Germany as the courts now found themselves constrained to hear physicians, barber surgeons or midwives in cases of abortion, infanticidal, poisoning, murder or manslaughter.
(13) That police officer was Simon Harwood, a member of the Metropolitan police's riot squad who, more than three years later, has been found not guilty of his manslaughter.
(14) The dental investigation and subsequent dental testimony were prime factors leading to the defendant's conviction of manslaughter in the first case in California involving the major use of bite mark evidence.
(15) The police officer who attacked Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in London in 2009 could be prosecuted for manslaughter after an inquest jury ruled that the newspaper seller was unlawfully killed.
(16) More than a year on, the Crown Prosecution Service is still considering whether to charge that officer with manslaughter.
(17) Mr Gordon sentenced Killen to consecutive 20-year terms on each of the three counts of manslaughter.
(18) His adoptive father was later acquitted of involuntary manslaughter, prompting strong media criticism in Russia .
(19) Sentencing Hutton, the judge said Hamzah's manslaughter involved "failing to provide him with anything like adequate nourishment over a long period of time – in short you starved him to death".
(20) The jury at Southwark crown court, who took four days to clear PC Simon Harwood of manslaughter on a majority verdict, was not told that the officer had been investigated a number of other times for alleged violence and misconduct.