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Match Each Word with the Appropriate Definition or Description

Question 61

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Match each word with the appropriate definition or description.

Premises:

Responses:

Feticide

Killing another person without justification, excuse, or mitigating circumstances.

Manslaughter

A common law rule stating that a person could not be prosecuted for homicide unless the victim died within a year and a day of the act that was responsible for the fatal injury.

Bifurcation

Circumstances that would lend towards a lighter or reduced criminal penalty during sentencing.

Murder

Separating a trial into two parts. In first-degree murder cases, the defendant’s guilt or innocence is decided first by the jury. Then, the penalty of life imprisonment or death is decided separately by the jury.

Aggravating circumstances

The deliberate, willful, and premeditated killing of another person.

First-degree murder

The unlawful killing of another human being without malice aforethought.

Homicide

The killing of a human being by another human being.

Year-and-a-day rule

Causing the death of an unborn fetus.

Mitigating circumstances

The unlawful killing of another person with malice aforethought.

Malice aforethought

Circumstances that would lend towards a harsher penalty during sentencing.

Premises:

Feticide

Manslaughter

Bifurcation

Murder

Aggravating circumstances

First-degree murder

Homicide

Year-and-a-day rule

Mitigating circumstances

Malice aforethought

Responses:

Killing another person without justification, excuse, or mitigating circumstances.

A common law rule stating that a person could not be prosecuted for homicide unless the victim died within a year and a day of the act that was responsible for the fatal injury.

Circumstances that would lend towards a lighter or reduced criminal penalty during sentencing.

The deliberate, willful, and premeditated killing of another person.

The unlawful killing of another human being without malice aforethought.

The killing of a human being by another human being.

Causing the death of an unborn fetus.

The unlawful killing of another person with malice aforethought.

Circumstances that would lend towards a harsher penalty during sentencing.

Correct Answer:

Premises:

Responses:

Feticide

Manslaughter