When you are being charged with some type of murder, you need to know exactly what you are up against. There are exactly four types of murder that you could be charged with. Two of them have higher consequences than the other two have which is why you need to be aware of what type of murder case you are involved in.
The first type of murder is classified as intent to kill. This type of Texas murder case is usually defined as a time when you set out to kill someone without any premeditation. Usually with the intent to kill also applies the deadly weapon rule which states that if you try to use a deadly weapon on someone, it is technically considered intent to kill that person because of the choice of object used. When there is no premeditation, it is usually considered second degree murder. If you have thoughts ahead of time to kill that person and then you act upon those thoughts, this is considered premeditation which is first degree murder.
The next type of murder in Texas is classified as Intent to Cause Serious Bodily Harm. This means that you were only intending to hurt the person seriously when you actually ended up killing that person. The reason that the murder happened in this case is because of your anger. This type of murder is usually classified as only second degree murder because of your original intent to only hurt the person; not murder the person. The consequences for second degree murder in Texas are usually between 2 and 20 years in prison with a fine of up to $10,000. Depending on how lenient the judge is will determine how severe the punishment is.
The next type of murder is classified as Depraved Heart or malignant heart murder. This is where murder gets a little bit more complicated. This means that you didn’t intend to kill the person and you are only being punished for your unacceptable conduct. This type of Texas murder case is usually classified as a second degree murder in Texas because of the person’s lack of malice toward the person that was murdered. This basically means that you were reckless in your actions and got someone killed in the process.
The last type of murder is fairly basic in its relation to the other types. The last type is classified as a felony murder in Texas. This is defined as someone being killed while the accused is committing some sort of other felony. This type of murder can be punishable with either a first or second degree murder depending on the situation surrounding all the events that took place. There are many different felonies that could go along with this type of murder including arson, rape, kidnapping, and robbery.
By: Joseph Devine
Different Types of Murder in Texas
FCR: An Inhuman Law
In present world there are many communities that are passing their lives under inhuman laws in third world countries as well as in developing countries. Pakistan is also a country which in passing through the stages of development. The article regards an inhuman law which is applicable to the tribal people of FATA.
FATA stands for federally administrative tribal areas. On the boarder of Afghanistan and Pakistan there living Pukhtoon tribes in hilly areas which have lack of social development. There population is about fifty lakes now a day. According to the Constitution of Pakistan, article 247, Pakistani law is not applicable to the tribal built and FCR should be applicable to these areas.
As we discussed that FCR stands for frontier crimes regulation. Originally it is a British law which had applied to control the tribal people during colonial government. It has 64 articles and most of them are against basic human rights while government of Pakistan says that these are according to the cultural set up of tribal people
Some main points of FCR are as bellow that is against basic human rights.
According to the article 40 of FCR if any tribal commits any crime his whole tribe will be responsible for his wrong act and government can arrest any person of his tribe. So it is clear that it is against human rights because every person is responsible for his/her wrong act another concept is that in tribal culture if a person commit crime only his family supports him rather than his whole tribe so as Anthropological point of view FCR should be amend that tribal responsibility should be changed to family responsibility and government can arrest his other family members and not his other tribal.
Another point is that if any murder case happened near one’s home that person will be responsible for murder. It is clear that each government is responsible for the safety of all citizens and no citizen is responsible for the safety of other citizens so why should a government arrest a person for a not committed crime.
According to FCR tribal people have no right of appeal to any court in the country. They can solve their disputes under the authority of political administration of Pakistani government. So it is also against human rights because why a person can not go to court for his/her rights.
Another and last reason for the wrongness of FCR is that FATA is under the control of Pakistani government than why there is different law for people of one country.
We can suggest that Pakistani government should amend FCR in the context of present culture of tribal people and universal human rights.
Aftab Ahmad Mallagori
Khyber Agency
By: aftab ahmad khan mallagori