second-degree murder
Legal term used primarily in the context of US and other common-law jurisdictions; not a Japanese criminal law category.
アメリカでは、第二級殺人は第一級殺人より刑が軽い。
In the US, second-degree murder carries a lighter sentence than first-degree murder.
被告は第二級殺人で起
The defendant was charged with second-degree murder.
Standard kanji spelling for this legal term.
Variant using numeral 2 instead of 二; common in legal or formal documents.
Compound of 第二級 (second rank/degree) and 殺人 (murder/homicide), likely a direct translation of the English legal term 'second-degree murder'.