Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal chiefly US English) An act of murder with intent, but without premeditation. 2 (context legal chiefly US English) The crime of murder with intent, but without premeditation.
Usage examples of "second-degree murder".
Especially they would not want to convict, of a charge of second-degree murder, a young, attractive, and now motherless boy like Derek Peck, Jr.
The verdicts of first-and second-degree murder meant that the death penalty could not be imposed, as Fogleman and Davis had wanted.
In a December 1992 arrangement, her prior conviction was set aside and she pleaded no contest to the lesser charge of second-degree murder in return for being released on parole, based on time already served.
Griskin, a former convict, had served eleven years for second-degree murder before the lobbying efforts of a coalition of artists and writers had won his parole.
A man who'd been tried as a teenager for a serious felony--second-degree murder.
In Miami Beach, a security guard was charged with second-degree murder after fatally shooting a 78-year-old man.