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The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder

It's wikipedia.

I'm just talking semantics. Murder is intentional by strict definition, however "Felony Murder" like "Statutory Rape" is law that broadens the definition for the intents and purposes of law. Rape is "penetration without consent", but "statutory rape" cases can involve personal consent with enthusiastic participants, but it qualifies as rape because of laws predicated on doctrines of minors being less than fully informed in their decision making and the potential for undue influence coming from power/age differentials.

Again, the word murder means "premeditated killing" in a strict dictionary sense, and when the law incorporates non-premeditation killing it modifies the term: "second-degree murder", "felony murder", "crime-of-passion murder" — the modifiers broaden murder to accommodate levels of intentionality (malice or negligence).

That's all, it's language. I like to talk about semantics. You're absolutely right that language gets broadened and narrowed by laws, I've said as much as well.

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