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Definition of culpable homicide in English: culpable homicidenoun mass nounLaw (in some jurisdictions, including Scotland, South Africa, and India) an act which has resulted in a person's death but is held not to amount to murder. Example sentencesExamples - Convictions generally carry lesser sentences than in manslaughter or culpable homicide cases in the UK.
- They must protect life by enacting criminal legislation which aims to punish individuals who deprive others of their right to life - i.e. murder, manslaughter, culpable homicide, etc.
- The husband has committed an act that is morally wrong; he has committed murder, or perhaps culpable homicide, or at least manslaughter.
- In March 2002, they were both acquitted on charges of murder and culpable homicide.
- The jury convicted him of culpable homicide, rather than murder.
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