Talk:Negligent homicide

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Does negligent homicide require the perpetrator be aware of the danger or responsibility they neglect? mike4ty4 06:06, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the two sections headed "Innocent deaths" and "Georgia Board to Pardon Woman". I'll assume good faith that these weren't intentionally added as POV material, and simply remove them as having nothing to do with negligent homicide. The Larry Griffin article (sited from here) is a murder (drug related, drive-by). The Lena Baker article (sited from offline Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Aug. 16, 2005) is a self defense case. Please avoid posting POV material. Speed8ump (talk) 19:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not everything was irrelevant

Since reinstating death penalty in USA in 1976 there were at least five people put to death where there were many questions on the legal procedure (based on one sole witness) which approved of their deaths, one of them was Larry Griffin who was eventually found innocent of negligent homicide or murder.[1]. Possibly others are also innocent: Carlos DeLuna, Ruben Cantu, Gary Graham, Joseph O'Dell, David Spence, Leo Jones, Cameron Willingham [2].

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has announced that it will issue a formal pardon this month for Lena Baker (pictured), the only woman executed in the state during the 20th century. The document, signed by all five of the current board members, will note that the parole board's 1945 decision to deny Baker clemency and allow her execution was "a grievous error, as this case called out for mercy." Baker, an African American, was executed for the murder of Ernest Knight, a white man who hired her . Baker was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in one day by an all-white, all-male jury. Baker claimed she shot Knight in self-defense after he locked her in his gristmill and threatened her with a metal pipe. The pardon notes that Baker "could have been charged with voluntary manslaughter, rather than murder, for the death of E.B. Knight." The average sentence for voluntary manslaughter is 15 years in prison. Baker's picture and her last words are currently displayed near the retired electric chair at a museum at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville.

Good stories

So this is a type of "involuntary manslaughter", right? --Voidvector (talk) 19:41, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...in the first paragraph: "intentionally, knowingly or recklessly" instead of only "intentionally", as in [3]. The given example concentrates on negligent as in "to not care for somebody you should" instead on "to not care for circumstances that bring danger (and finally kill) somebody." --Erzbischof (talk) 11:46, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]