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Manslaughter

Assassination
Child murder
Consensual homicide
Contract killing
Felony murder
Honour killing
Human sacrifice
Lust murder
Lynching
Mass murder
Murder-suicide
Proxy murder
Ritual murder
Serial killer
Spree killer
Torture murder

Manslaughter

in English law
Negligent homicide
Vehicular homicide

Non-criminal homicide

Justifiable homicide
Capital punishment

Other types of homicide

Avunculicide
Deicide
Democide
Familicide
Femicide
Filicide
Fratricide
Gendercide
Genocide
Infanticide
Mariticide
Matricide
Neonaticide
Parricide
Patricide
Regicide
Sororicide
Suicide
Tyrannicide
Uxoricide
Vivicide

"Homicide" status disputed

Abortion
Feticide
Prolicide

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Manslaughter is a legal term for the killing of a human in a manner considered by law as less culpable than murder.

The law generally differentiates between levels of criminal culpability based on the mens rea, or state of mind. This is particularly true within the law of homicide, where murder requires either the intent to kill — a state of mind called malice — or malice aforethought, which may involve an unintentional killing but with a willful disregard for life.

Manslaughter is usually broken down into two distinct categories: voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter.

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