Murder
Murder occurs
- where the person who causes the death of a human being means to cause his death, or means to cause him bodily harm that he knows is likely to cause his death, and is reckless whether death ensues or not;
- where a person, meaning to cause death to a human being or meaning to cause him bodily harm that he knows is likely to cause his death, and being reckless whether death ensues or not, by accident or mistake causes death to another human being, notwithstanding that he does not mean to cause death or bodily harm to that human being; or
- where a person, for an unlawful object, does anything that he knows or ought to know is likely to cause death, and thereby causes death to a human being, notwithstanding that he desires to effect his object without causing death or bodily harm to any human being.
— Criminal Code of Canada, s. 229
In Canada, murder is classified as either first or second degree:
| Type of murder | Nature |
|---|---|
| First degree | was planned and deliberate |
| was contracted | |
| was committed against an identified peace officer | |
| while committing or attempting to commit the hijacking of an aircraft | |
| while committing or attempting to commit sexual assault | |
| while committing or attempting to commit sexual assault with a weapon | |
| while committing or attempting to commit aggravated sexual assault | |
| while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping and forcible confinement | |
| during a hostage taking | |
| while committing criminal harassment | |
| was committed during terrorist activity | |
| while using explosives in association with a criminal organization | |
| while committing intimidation. | |
| Second degree | any murder which is not first degree murder |
Read more about this topic: Murder In Canada, Types of Culpable Homicide
Famous quotes containing the word murder:
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“There’s in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.”
—Anne Frank (1929–1945)