On February 26, 2014, 21-year-old Christian Andreacchio was found dead in his apartment in Meridian, Mississippi. Meridian police ruled his death a suicide after a 45-minute investigation, but ...

Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide on Friday for shooting and killing his girlfriend in 2013. Judge Thokozile Masipa characterized Pistorius as an unreliable ...

Killing someone is a gruesome act. While, in layman's language, homicide and murder are interchangeably used, the law has clearly demarcated a clear distinction between murder and culpable homicide.

Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. In South Africa, culpable homicide is defined simply as “unlawful or negligent ...