Module 6 Test Review

In most states, which of the following is not deemed to be a legally adequate provocation for voluntary manslaughter?  

At common law, a criminal homicide committed with malice aforethought was murder.  

In modern law, capital murder is the most serious crime.  

Murder involves the unlawful killing of another person with malicious intent, while manslaughter involves unintentional killing without malice.

Deborah wants to kill her husband.  She is tired of him spending all of her hard-earned money on drugs.  She plans out the killing very carefully.  She is going to bake his favorite cake and ice cream and put poison in it.  She plans the day of the killing, buys the needed supplies, makes a cake, and waits for him to eat it and die.  Deborah has committed felony murder.

Voluntary manslaughter is a form of unintentional accidental killings.  

Manslaughter was the most serious crime in common law.  

All felony murders are intentional killings.

Bob walks in and finds his wife, Sue, having an affair with his best friend Steve.  Bob picks up a lamp and beats Sue and Steve to death.  Bob will likely be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter as this was a sudden heat of passion killing with adequate provocation.  

Murder and Manslaughter are the same thing.

Serial killers are usually found to be guilty of 1st-degree premeditated murder.  

Felony murder requires intent to __________

At common law, murder was distinguished from manslaughter in that murder required________.

At common law, murder was divided into first, second, and third-degree murder.  

The killing of a human fetus at common law was a murder.