Summary
THE Law Commission's proposal to downgrade many killings to manslaughter would run contrary to centuries of understanding of the meaning of our most serious crime.
Murder is defined as an unlawful killing with 'malice aforethought', which in turn is defined as an intention either to kill or to commit grievous bodily harm.See the full content of this document
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Sorry, but Murder Doesn't Always Have to Mean Life
If someone is attacked with enough violence to kill him, the fact that the attacker might not have intended his victim to die is considered irrelevant.
If he intended to inflict upon his victim so much harm that he died, it is thought a...See the full content of this document
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