justifiable homicide in English

noun
1
the killing of a person in circumstances that allow the act to be regarded in law as without criminal guilt.
I would then have admitted the crime, retained myself for the defense… and entered a plea of justifiable homicide .

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1. The jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide.