An act of murder reduced to a charge of manslaughter due to extenuating circumstances, such as diminished capacity or being provoked in the heat of passion.
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Voluntary-manslaughter Sentence Examples
guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
The applicant was alleged to have committed voluntary manslaughter in Denmark on 22 February 1990; he left Denmark the next day.
In fact voluntary manslaughter is where a person is killed by someone else in rage, terror or desperation.