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  2. List of punishments for murder in the United States - Wikipedia

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    First Degree Manslaughter Maximum of 15 years in prison (7–10 years for clean records) Third Degree Murder Maximum of 25 years in prison (12.5 years for clean record) Second Degree Murder Maximum of 40 years in prison (If a person had a clean record, 12.5 years but if intentional, 25.5 years) First Degree Murder

  3. Murder in Illinois law - Wikipedia

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    Illinois has four different homicide crimes in total, with first-degree murder being the most serious offense. Illinois law defines first-degree murder as when a person intends to kill, intends to inflict great bodily harm, or knowingly engages in an act that has a strong probability of death or great bodily harm for another individual, causing a person's death. [2]

  4. Manslaughter (United States law) - Wikipedia

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    The maximum penalty for homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle is twenty-five years in prison, but with a prior OWI offense the maximum penalty may be increased to forty years in prison. [12] In the State of Texas, intoxication manslaughter is a distinctly defined offense.

  5. List of longest prison sentences - Wikipedia

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    He was given 17 64 year sentences and 8 24 year sentences totalling 1,256 years. Given another 10-year sentence. [51] Sentenced to 6 years in 2003 for the bank robbery before. Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi 2007 1,243 years Spain: Perpetrators of the 1995 Vallecas bombing. They were expected to serve a maximum sentence of 30 years.

  6. United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines - Wikipedia

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    The Guidelines are the product of the United States Sentencing Commission, which was created by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. [3] The Guidelines' primary goal was to alleviate sentencing disparities that research had indicated were prevalent in the existing sentencing system, and the guidelines reform was specifically intended to provide for determinate sentencing.

  7. Criminal sentencing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Rate of U.S. imprisonment per 100,000 population of adult males by race and ethnicity in 2006. Jails and prisons. On June 30, 2006, an estimated 4.8% of black non-Hispanic men were in prison or jail, compared to 1.9% of Hispanic men of any race, and 0.7% of white non-Hispanic men.

  8. Murder in United States law - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide, of which first-degree murder and felony murder [1] are the most serious, followed by second-degree murder and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such ...

  9. Corporate manslaughter - Wikipedia

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    This is the approach to be taken under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 which came into force in the UK in April 2008. Where a corporation's activities cause a person's death and the failure was because of a breach that falls far below what can reasonably be expected of the organisation in the circumstances, the ...