3rd degree murder and manslaughter

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is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.

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(a) Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.

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Minnesota
Minnesota law originally defined third-degree murder solely as depraved-heart murder ("without intent to effect the death of any person, caus[ing] the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life").[7][8] In 1987, an additional drug-related provision ("without intent to cause death, proximately caus[ing] the death of a human being by, directly or indirectly, unlawfully selling, giving away, bartering, delivering, exchanging, distributing, or administering a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II") was added to the definition of third-degree murder.[7][9] Up until the early 2000s, prosecutions under that provision were rare, but they began to rise in the 2010s. Some reports linked this increase in prosecutions to the opioid epidemic in the United States.[10]

Minnesota law also defines the crime of third-degree murder of an unborn child, with the same elements of depraved mind and lack of intent to kill distinguishing it from first- or second-degree murder of an unborn child.[11][12] Both third-degree murder and third-degree murder of an unborn child are punishable by a maximum of 25 years' imprisonment.[7][12]

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technical terms: 1st degree is premeditated, 2nd degree is not. they are both intentional. 3rd degree is manslaughter.
1st degree murder is premeditated, i.e. i stalk someone over a few days and plan their murder.
2nd degree is more a heat of the moment thing, i.e. i walk in on my wife doing the frick frack with someone and i beat the guy to death. expanding on this, if i walk in on them and go get my gun from the other room and then shoot them, that would be 1st degree because i had time to change my mind.
there is technically no 3rd degree; its manslaughter. there are 2 types, involuntary and voluntary. voluntary would be if me and my friend get in a fight, and i punch them and without intending to kill them, they die.
involuntary would be if me and my girlfriend are taking a walk on a cliffside and i trip and fall into her and she falls off the cliff, or me and my friend are fighting and i punch them and they fall and hit their head and die.

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