Key Terms
The crime of killing a fetus is known as what?
Feticide
What type of crime is the most serious of all crimes?
Criminal homicide.
Felony murders are defined as what?
Felony murders are unintentional deaths that occur during the commission of some felonies.
Originally, manslaughter was one crime. Now, manslaughter is split into what two types?
Voluntary and involuntary manslaughter.
True or False. There is only one form of euthanasia.
False. Euthanasia has many forms.
This term means the mental state of intentional killing, with some amount of spite, hate, or bad will, planned in advance of the killing.
Malice aforethought.
________, or helping another person die, presents irreconcilable moral, ethical, and legal dilemmas about the meaning and value of human life.
Euthanasia.
Murder __________ is the act of killing by poisoning, striking, starving, drowning, and a thousand other forms by which a human nature can be overcome.
actus reus
Involuntary manslaughter goes by the name of ___________ in some statutes and cases.
Criminal negligence manslaughter.
Involuntary euthanasia can be _______ (a family or court decision with good intentions) or ________ (purposeful disregard of legal process or by co-opting the legal process).
Beneficent, malevolent
_____________ are defined as death penalty cases in death penalty states and "mandatory life sentence without parole" cases in non-death penalty states.
Capital Cases.
True or False. The reason of creating first- and second-degree murders was to separate murders that deserved the death penalty versus those who don't.
True.
Murder _________ can include purposeful, knowing, or reckless as the mental element in killing.
mens rea
_______ manslaughter is about letting your anger get the best of you in the worst possible way- killing another person.
Voluntary
What is the difference between passive and active euthanasia?
Passive euthanasia is failing to take any extraordinary measures to keep someone alive.
Active euthanasia is deliberate acts to cause death.
___________ is the requirement that the provocation for killing in anger has to be something the law recognizes, the defendant himself had to be provoked, and that a reasonable person would have been provoked.
Adequate provocation.
True or False. Adequate provocation is an excuse for criminal homicide.
False. Adequate provocation is not an excuse for criminal homicide. It only reduces the seriousness and punishment for murder.
An extremely reckless killing is known as what?
A depraved heart murder.
Unintended deaths occurring during to commission of non-homicide offenses are known by what two names?
1) Unlawful act manslaughter or 2) misdemeanor manslaughter.
Supporters of doctor-assisted suicide say the argument is not for euthanasia; rather, it is an argument against "_______________"
"insufferable and unending pain"
What does the bifurcation procedure mandate or require?
A) A trial to determine guilt or innocence.
B) A second separate proceeding after the determination of guilt
C) Both A and B
C) Both A and B
The bifurcation procedure mandates that the death penalty decision be made in two phases.
Murder actus reus, murder mens rea, causation, death, and attendant circumstances are all required to do what?
Prove murder beyond a reasonable doubt.
____-degree murder is the only crime in which the death penalty can be imposed; consists of pre-meditated, deliberate intent to kill murders and felony murders.
First-degree murder
This is known as a homicide committed under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance for which there is a reasonable explanation or excuse.
Extreme mental or emotional disturbance manslaughter.
True or False. Euthanasia must be voluntary.
False, euthanasia can be voluntary or involuntary.