Generally speaking there is a difference between murder and manslaughter, but to the public it may seem there is a difference without a distinction. Legal definitions are often hard to explain to a non-lawyer.<\/p>\n
To begin with, the most serious crime in the U.S. and other places is murder, often punishable by death or life without parole, depending on the state where the murder took place. Having said that, if a death cannot be classified as a murder it is usually considered to be a form of manslaughter and does not get the same kind of severe penalties.<\/p>\n
“What puts murder on a different page is the mental status of the offender,” said Daniel H. Wannamaker, of Wannamaker and Associates, an Austin, Texas law firm with offices in Dallas and Houston. Legally speaking, the mental component (mental state) is referred to as premeditated malice. “You might recognize the phrase in another form often (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Generally speaking there is a difference between murder and manslaughter, but to the public it may seem there is a difference without a distinction. Legal definitions are often hard to explain to a non-lawyer. To begin with, the most serious…<\/span><\/p>\n