In most countries, a person convicted of murder generally faces a long-term prison sentence, a life sentence, or capital punishment. Most societies consider murder to be an extremely serious crime, and thus that a person convicted of murder should receive harsh punishments for the purposes of retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, or incapacitation. Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of malice, brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity.

This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter.

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. Illegal consumption (such as prohibition of drugs, alcohol, and smoking).Murder in the House by Jakub Schikaneder Criminal law

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