Homicide

In most states depending on the circumstances, accessory to murder can get you about 25 years.

its a crime

Although we hear a lot about men killing their wives and girlfriends, there are also far too many wives who kill husbands. They are a very long list, but wives less frequently kill them by shooting them themselves, women tend to use more subtle means or get someone else to do the dirty work. That being said, some of the more notorious cases that come to mind are:

Betty Broderick in 1989 shoots her ex-husband and his new wife while they slept in their bed in their own home near San Diego, CA. She claimed that she "jumped and the gun went off" (Betty just happened to be in their bedroom in the middle of the night with a loaded gun). After two notorious trials, the first ended with a hung jury, she was finally convicted.

Dante Sutorius in 1996 shot her her husband in Cincinnati, OH trying to make it look like suicide. She was a charmer who went from man to man, marrying "up", spending his money and moving on.

Terri Gilbert in 1996 shot her husband in Albuquerque, NM claiming she thought her was a burglar. The same woman had been cleared of killing her ex-husband in 1974, claiming self defence.

Piper Rountree in 2004 shot her ex-husband in Richmond, VA. She claimed she was at home in Texas, but her cell phone records gave her away. She had traveled by air from Texas wearing a wig in order to confuse authorities into thinking it could have been her twin sister.

Anne Marie Stout in 2004 shot her husband several times as he sat on the sofa in her living room. When she was unable to load his body into their truck, she called her sister for help, who in turn called the authorities.

Barbara Ford, a recent widow with two sons, marries Russell Stager, a popular HS coach. Nine years later she is once again a widow. She claims to have accidently shot her husband with a pistol he kept under his pillow after hearing a noise in the night. She may well have gotten away with the "accident" story if Russell's ex-wife, who had remained friends with Russell, had not advised police that Barbara's first husband had also died in bed of a gunshot wound which Barbara had explained as an accident. Her pattern, it turned out, was to marry, spend all the money, run up the debts, kill the husband, collect the insurance, and move on happily ever after.

For a list of more infamous women who kill, see the link below.

If the question is in reference to James Earl Chaney, one of the so-called "Freedom Riders" who were killed in Mississippi in the 1960's - Edgar Ray Killen, one of seven who were thought to have been collectively involved, was found guilty of three counts of Manslaughter on June 20, 2005, and he was sentenced to 60 years in prison-twenty years for each count, to be served consecutively.

A very small percent of people are killed by justified homicide with guns. Most deaths by firearms are deliberate or inadvertent.

If you're looking for the technical term, it's fratricide.

because there are more old people in the community

A person who is involved either before, during, or after the act.

I could not find any information on the actual crime for which he was convicted. So I can't speak to that. I could not find any "legal help for the wrongly convicted" sites that might be working on his case. In fact, the only information I could find on him was provided by himself. Not a good sign. Also not a good sign that his sites are all about his innocence and how he's been "born again".

Many people are unaware or just never thought about the fact that sociopaths are not necessarily criminals or commit criminal acts. They are people living among us that have learned to fit in to society even if they don't have a conscience or feel empathy for others. They are motivated to fit in because they want a "normal" life like everyone else.

Then there are the sociopaths that have not been able to do that. One of the common tactics for these is to immerse themselves in Christianity in order to mimic the attitudes and appearance of a Christian. These people eventually "slip up" and people around them can't believe that this person could do such a thing. It isn't necessarily murder, more often things like blatant adultery or embezzlement or even something they inadvertently say. If you are aware that these people are around us, it's easier to spot the signs.

I don't know enough about Mr. Chen to evaluate. But hopefully the generalities will give you some insight. And who knows, stranger things have happened, he could be innocent.

I posted the Slate article about that in the related links box below.

Yes,it is possible, the stress level that hackers and spammers put on unaware PC operators could and may have already caused a heart attack or stroke, do you feel this could or should be used in a computer related homicide and be prosecuted?

I do..

murder or homicide

I'm not familiar with the term "Excusable" Homicide. Justifiable Homicide occurs when it is ruled (usually a Grand Jury) that a death of someone was proper and occurred within the bounds of law (i.e.: the shooting death of an armed bank robber by a police officer).

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, Louisiana with 12.5 murders per 100,000; with the closest competitor at 9.0 and the lowest at .6 per 100,000.

International rates are more difficult based on the reliability of the reporting countries. Countries reporting homicides may or may not include assault leading to death, infanticide and assisted suicide or euthanasia; homicide demographics are affected by varying levels in trauma care, or may be under reported based on politics.

The statistics are the product of The Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, lead by Switzerland, and many of the countries in the report were not signatories to the organization until after 2000. Their statistics show that Swaziland lead that year with 88.6 per 100,000, followed by Columbia at 63. The next closest countries were Honduras and South Africa, both at 50 per 100,000. The US for all states was at 5.5 per 100,000 as reported to the committee by the FBI and Dept. of Justice. See the link below for the full list with links to the sources for the reported numbers.

An example of justifiable homicide might be if you were attacked by someone and in fighting them off you killed them or somehow caused their death. Felonious homicide would be when you planned to kill someone, or your actions were such that death could be presumed to be the outcome.

Victims precipitate 0% of all crimes. The decision to commit the crime is still made by the perpetrator and always precipitated by that person. No matter how dumb, naive, careless, greedy, or even guilty of a crime the victim may be, the person who decides to commit the crime against them is still the perpetrator and the person who was subject to the crime is still the victim. The percentage of occurrence that the perpetrator is the only victim of their own crime is negligible, and that person is still the perpetrator. I can't imagine what that scholar's specialty is, certainly not crime.

It is not as easy as one might believe.

In most cases, the "hanging" is to cover up a death brought about by another method.

Modern forensic science can ascertain actual cause of death very quickly.

Most victims will not willingly allow themselves to be hung. Blunt force causing unconsciousness will leave telltale marks on the skull. Garroting or manual strangulation will leave distinctive marks about the throat unlike those of an intentional "suicidal" hanging and are easily recognized by a coroner. Even victims rendered unconscious by chemical means have distinctive bruising as they are manipulated into the "fake" hanging position and routine blood analysis will show use of drugs.

When there is any doubt whatsoever, the coroner will look for all these signs and more.

Death. Texas does not distinguish between the triggerman and the accomplices. All are equally guilty.

marinette county in Wisconsin

Yes, definitely. In some jurisdictions, a victim being killed during the commission of another crime (burglary, robbery, arson, etc.) can qualify the murder for the death penalty.

There are a whole heap of ranges but the main cause might have to be that they ate psycho

8 to 60 years

Slow walking zombie. I guess it's not a real code, but made up from MTV-series Death Valley.