Although his handling is direct, positive and vital, Guston, by a process of alternately enriching and impoverishing his surfaces, achieves both an immediate splendor and a weakened echo of it - the direct heat of passion and the cooling, remembered ecstasy. (visual-arts-cork.com)
At best, you get heat of passion murder which is more serious than manslaughter (which is reckless mens rea) in many states based on the Model Penal Code. (law.stackexchange.com)
Are there factors such as heat of passion, sudden outrage, fear, that could reduce a homicide from murder down to voluntary or even involuntary manslaughter? (lawyer-monthly.com)