What's the difference between manslaughter and manslayer?
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.
Manslayer
Definition:
(n.) One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.