noun

• (in some jurisdictions, including Scotland, South Africa, and India) an unlawful act that results in a person's death but is held not to amount to murder.

  ‘They must protect life by enacting criminal legislation which aims to punish individuals who deprive others of their right to life - i.e. murder, manslaughter, culpable homicide, etc.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The jury convicted him of culpable homicide, rather than murder.’
  • ‘Convictions generally carry lesser sentences than in manslaughter or culpable homicide cases in the UK.’
  • ‘The husband has committed an act that is morally wrong; he has committed murder, or perhaps culpable homicide, or at least manslaughter.’
  • ‘In March 2002, they were both acquitted on charges of murder and culpable homicide.’