Florida Statutes Title XLVI Chapter 782 - Homicide

• 782.02 - Justifiable Use Of Deadly Force.
  The use of deadly force is justifiable when a person is resisting any attempt to murder such person or to commit any felony upon him...
• 782.03 - Excusable Homicide.
  Homicide is excusable when committed by accident and misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means with usual ordinary caution, and without any unlawful...
• 782.035 - Abrogation Of Common-law Rule Of Evidence Known As “year-and-a-day Rule.”
  The common-law rule of evidence applicable to homicide prosecutions known as the “year-and-a-day rule,” which provides a conclusive presumption that an injury is not the...
• 782.04 - Murder.
  (1)(a) The unlawful killing of a human being:1. When perpetrated from a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed or any human being;2. When committed...
• 782.051 - Attempted Felony Murder.
  (1) Any person who perpetrates or attempts to perpetrate any felony enumerated in s. 782.04(3) and who commits, aids, or abets an intentional act that is...
• 782.065 - Murder; Law Enforcement Officer, Correctional Officer, Correctional Probation Officer.
  Notwithstanding ss. 775.082, 775.0823, 782.04, 782.051, and chapter 921, a defendant shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for release upon findings by the...
• 782.07 - Manslaughter; Aggravated Manslaughter Of An Elderly Person Or Disabled Adult; Aggravated Manslaughter Of A Child; Aggravated Manslaughter Of An Officer, A Firefighter, An Emergency Medical Technician, Or A Paramedic.
  (1) The killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, without lawful justification according to the provisions of chapter 776...
• 782.071 - Vehicular Homicide.
  “Vehicular homicide” is the killing of a human being, or the killing of an unborn child by any injury to the mother, caused by the...
• 782.072 - Vessel Homicide.
  “Vessel homicide” is the killing of a human being by the operation of a vessel as defined in s. 327.02 by another in a reckless...
• 782.08 - Assisting Self-murder.
  Every person deliberately assisting another in the commission of self-murder shall be guilty of manslaughter, a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in...
• 782.081 - Commercial Exploitation Of Self-murder.
  (1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Deliberately assisting” means carrying out a public act that is intended to:1. Aid, abet, facilitate, permit, advocate, or encourage;2. Publicize, promote,...
• 782.09 - Killing Of Unborn Child By Injury To Mother.
  (1) The unlawful killing of an unborn child, by any injury to the mother of such child which would be murder if it resulted in the...
• 782.11 - Unnecessary Killing To Prevent Unlawful Act.
  Whoever shall unnecessarily kill another, either while resisting an attempt by such other person to commit any felony, or to do any other unlawful act,...
• 782.30 - Short Title.
  Sections 782.30-782.36 may be cited as the “Partial-Birth Abortion Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 2000-142.Note.—Section 5, ch. 2000-142, provides that “[t]his act shall be liberally construed to...
• 782.32 - Definitions.
  As used in this act, the term:(1) “Partially born” means the living fetus’s intact body, with the entire head attached, is presented so that:(a) There has been...
• 782.34 - Partial-birth Abortion.
  Except as provided in s. 782.36, any person who intentionally kills a living fetus while that fetus is partially born commits the crime of partial-birth...
• 782.36 - Exceptions.
  (1) A patient receiving a partial-birth-abortion procedure may not be prosecuted under this act.(2) This act does not apply to a suction or sharp curettage abortion.(3) This act...

Last modified: September 23, 2016