Also how do the degrees work? This is purely to settle a debate over if I was HYPOTHETICALLY killed over some MC loot which would it be.
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Depends on where you are. In fact, some states call manslaughter “third degree murder.” So in some sense, legally, there may not even be a difference between murder and manslaughter.
What you’re really seeing is that there are different levels of murder. Manslaughter is the lowest. Manslaughter usually means that you killed somebody by something like:
– doing something really stupid and reckless (you fired a gun in the air and the bullet came back down and killed someone, you drove drunk, etc). You didn’t kill them on purpose, but you did the stupid thing on purpose.
– you gave someone bad drugs and they OD’d.
– you were texting while driving.
– you told your migrant employees that they had to work in the sun and they died of heat stroke.
There’s also (in some states) the concept of *voluntary* manslaughter, which is usually some kind of excessive force. You did mean to do violence, but things just kind of got out of hand. It’s a step worse than regular manslaughter. You:
– shot someone in self-defense but you weren’t actually in danger.
– got into a bar fight and escalated it badly.
– walked in on your wife having sex with another man and shot him dead
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