The state would likely charge the husband with:
A husband and wife had been married for seven years. One night after the couple returned from a cocktail party the wife admitted to her husband that for the past year she had been committing adultery with a man whom she had dated while she was a college student. During the wife’s confession the husband became enraged, went to his dresser and retrieved a gun. He then forced his wife at gunpoint to describe the affair in detail. After 10 minutes he pulled the trigger and shot his wife to death.
a. Manslaughter
b. reckless homicide
c. hird-degree murder
d. first-degree murder
Answer: D
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