"second-degree murder" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: second-degree murders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} second-degree murder (countable and uncountable, plural second-degree murders)
  1. (law, chiefly US, Canada) The criminal offence of murder in a form defined as less serious than first-degree murder; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves second-degree murder being intentional but not premeditated. Tags: Canada, US, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law, Crime, Murder
    Sense id: en-second-degree_murder-en-noun-c6xNryS~ Disambiguation of Crime: 78 22 Disambiguation of Murder: 84 16 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 77 23 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 68 32 Topics: law
  2. (law, chiefly US, Canada) An act that constitutes the crime of second-degree murder. Tags: Canada, US, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-second-degree_murder-en-noun-ef3fLzr4 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: first-degree murder Translations (act or crime of murder with intent, but without premeditation): tappo (english: roughly equivalent concept in Finnish law) (Finnish), toisen asteen murha (english: US/Canada legal concept) (Finnish), meurtre au deuxième degré [Canada, masculine] [law] (French), szándékos, de nem előre megfontolt szándékkal elkövetett emberölés (Hungarian), morderstwo drugiego stopnia [neuter] (Polish)
Disambiguation of 'act or crime of murder with intent, but without premeditation': 48 52

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