Manslaughter Conviction

An alternative healer was on Friday found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of a diabetic woman who died from medical complications at a "slapping therapy" workshop in the UK.

Chris Harris, a father of three from Merthyr Tydfil, sustained a permanent brain injury from a single punch by former professional boxer Daniel Gerrard outside a pub in 2022.

Cameras were allowed to film a criminal court case in England and Wales for the first time on Thursday, when the sentencing of a man convicted of manslaughter was broadcast live on television.

UK police officer Benjamin Monk was cleared of murdering Dalian Atkinson but convicted of manslaughter after a six-week trial.

A US court has reduced the second-degree murder conviction of an Indian-American woman charged with violently shaking to death an infant in her care after it found no evidence that she intended to hurt the child, according to a media report.

A Florida man has been convicted of manslaughter for a fatal shooting during an argument about a parking spot, local media reported on Saturday, in a case that made headlines when police initially declined to arrest the suspect due to the state's "stand your ground" self-defense law.

In 2017, Michelle Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for convincing her boyfriend via text messages to die by suicide. She appealed the decision, but her conviction was upheld Wednesday by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

John Valverde isn't your typical CEO. He spent 16 years in prison for killing a man accused of raping his girlfriend.

A 45-year-old German woman has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of four of her newborn babies whose bodies were found at her apartment in a Bavarian town.

South African paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced to jail on Wednesday for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, but for how long depends largely on how the judge will weigh the role of his disability in the killing.

Oscar Pistorius was freed from prison in the South African capital Pretoria last October after serving one year of a five-year term for culpable homicide -- the equivalent of manslaughter

Oscar Pistorius, who fatally shot Steenkamp in his home early on Valentine's Day in 2013, is currently under house arrest after an appeals court overturned an initial manslaughter conviction against him and changed that to murder

In March, Oscar Pistorius's lawyers failed to reverse an appeal judgement that upgraded his original conviction from culpable homicide -- the equivalent of manslaughter -- to murder

A man whose loose bull wandered onto a road and was hit by a car, killing the driver, is facing an involuntary manslaughter charge, the prosecutor said. Farmers are worried about the harm a conviction could do to the state's agriculture economy.

Michael Jace's defence team accepted that he had shot his wife in the back and twice in her legs on May 19, 2014, but maintained that he was guilty only of voluntary manslaughter, sometimes called a "crime of passion"

An alternative healer was on Friday found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of a diabetic woman who died from medical complications at a "slapping therapy" workshop in the UK.

Chris Harris, a father of three from Merthyr Tydfil, sustained a permanent brain injury from a single punch by former professional boxer Daniel Gerrard outside a pub in 2022.

Cameras were allowed to film a criminal court case in England and Wales for the first time on Thursday, when the sentencing of a man convicted of manslaughter was broadcast live on television.

UK police officer Benjamin Monk was cleared of murdering Dalian Atkinson but convicted of manslaughter after a six-week trial.

A US court has reduced the second-degree murder conviction of an Indian-American woman charged with violently shaking to death an infant in her care after it found no evidence that she intended to hurt the child, according to a media report.

A Florida man has been convicted of manslaughter for a fatal shooting during an argument about a parking spot, local media reported on Saturday, in a case that made headlines when police initially declined to arrest the suspect due to the state's "stand your ground" self-defense law.

In 2017, Michelle Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for convincing her boyfriend via text messages to die by suicide. She appealed the decision, but her conviction was upheld Wednesday by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

John Valverde isn't your typical CEO. He spent 16 years in prison for killing a man accused of raping his girlfriend.

A 45-year-old German woman has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of four of her newborn babies whose bodies were found at her apartment in a Bavarian town.

South African paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced to jail on Wednesday for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, but for how long depends largely on how the judge will weigh the role of his disability in the killing.

Oscar Pistorius was freed from prison in the South African capital Pretoria last October after serving one year of a five-year term for culpable homicide -- the equivalent of manslaughter

Oscar Pistorius, who fatally shot Steenkamp in his home early on Valentine's Day in 2013, is currently under house arrest after an appeals court overturned an initial manslaughter conviction against him and changed that to murder

In March, Oscar Pistorius's lawyers failed to reverse an appeal judgement that upgraded his original conviction from culpable homicide -- the equivalent of manslaughter -- to murder

A man whose loose bull wandered onto a road and was hit by a car, killing the driver, is facing an involuntary manslaughter charge, the prosecutor said. Farmers are worried about the harm a conviction could do to the state's agriculture economy.

Michael Jace's defence team accepted that he had shot his wife in the back and twice in her legs on May 19, 2014, but maintained that he was guilty only of voluntary manslaughter, sometimes called a "crime of passion"