English-French translations for manslaughter

• homicide involontaire
  Andrew Symeou, un Londonien de 20 ans, a été extradé vers la Grèce cet été, accusé d'homicide involontaire. Andrew Symeou, a 20-year-old London man, was extradited to Greece this summer on a manslaughter charge.
  Sommes-nous sérieusement en train d'insinuer que la sentence est trop sévère pour quelqu'un qui a été reconnu coupable d'homicide involontaire? Are we seriously suggesting that the sentence is too harsh for somebody who was convicted of manslaughter?
  Toutefois, les membres cités des compagnies Railtrack - en charge de l'infrastructure - et Balfour Beatty pourraient devoir répondre d'homicide involontaire à la suite de cet accident. However, named members of Railtrack, the infrastructure company, and of Balfour Beatty possibly face manslaughter charges as a result of this accident.

Definition of manslaughter

• The slaying of a human being
• The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger

Related words

• manslaughterer
• killing () voluntary manslaughter
• voluntary manslaughter
• involuntary manslaughter