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review ch.9

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feticide   the crime of killing a fetus  
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murder   killing a person with "malice aforethought"  
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manslaughter   killing a person without malice aforethought  
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justifiable homicide   killing in self-defense  
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excusable homicide   killings done by someone "not of sound memory and discretion"  
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criminal homicide   all homicides that are neither justified nor excused  
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depraved heart murder   extremely reckless killings  
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felony murder rule   unintentional deaths that occur during the commission of some felonies are murder  
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unlawful act or misdemeanor manslaughter    
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euthanasia   helping another person to die  
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presumption of bodily integrity   a state can't exercise power over individual members of society except to prevent harm to others  
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paramour rule   the common law rule that a husband who caught his wife in the act of adultery had adequate provocation to kill; today, it applies to both parties of a marriage  
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