Posted on 11/18/2012 7:51:57 PM PST by marktwain
‘Usually homicide implies murder’...
But not neccessarily, you’ve heard of justifiable homicide.
Technical term. Homicide as defined in the UCR and part of state law is the intentional killing of another, without respect to motive or justification. That’s what the death certificate says. There are only five choices - homicide, suicide, accidental, natural or undetermined.
It is further broken down into justifiable and non-justifiable. This will likely be ruled justifiable.
Interesting point, under state law the death certificate of an executed prisoner reads ‘judicial homicide’.
When a person is executed by the state the coroner lists the death as a homicide.
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