| Homicide | | Murder | | Assassination Child murder Consensual homicide Felony murder Honor killing Human sacrifice Lust murder Lynching Mass murder Murder-suicide Negligent homicide Proxy murder Ritual murder Serial killer Spree killer Torture murder Vehicular homicide Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ...
It has been suggested that Extrajudicial Executions and Assasinations be merged into this article or section. ...
Note: for practices of systematically killing very young children, see infanticide For the killing of ones own children, see filicide. ...
Consensual homicide refers to a killing in which the victim wants to die. ...
The felony murder rule is a legal doctrine according to which anyone who commits, or is found to be involved in, a serious crime (a felony), during which any person dies, is guilty of murder. ...
An honor killing (Sindhi: ڪار٠ڪارÙ) is most commonly the murder of a female, and sometimes her love-interests or other associates, for supposed sexual or marital offenses. ...
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A lust murder is a homicide in which the offender stabs, cuts, pierces, slashes, or otherwise mutilates the sexual organs or areas of the victims body. ...
Lynching is a form of violence, usually murder, conceived of by its perpetrators as extra legal punishment for offenders or as a terrorist method of enforcing social domination. ...
Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time. ...
A murder suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or while killing himself. ...
A proxy murder is a murder in which the murderer does so at the behest of another, acting as his or her proxy. ...
Ritual murder is murder performed in a ritualistic fashion. ...
Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...
A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous rampage. ...
Torture murder is a loosely defined legal term to describe murderers who kill their victims by slowly torturing them to death over a prolonged period of time. ...
Vehicular homicide is in most places a criminal act involving the killing of a life by hitting it with a vehicle. ...
| | Manslaughter | | In English law For a discussion of the law in other countries, see manslaughter In the English law of homicide, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder with the the law differentiating between levels of fault based on the mens rea (Latin for a guilty mind). Manslaughter may be either: Voluntary where...
| | Non-criminal homicide | | Justifiable homicide Capital punishment The concept of justifiable homicide in criminal law stands on the dividing line between an excuse and an exculpation. ...
Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ...
| | Other types of homicide | | Democide Feticide Filicide Fratricide Genocide Infanticide Mariticide Matricide Parricide Patricide Sororicide Regicide Suicide Tyrannicide Uxoricide Democide is a term created by political scientist R. J. Rummel in order to create a broader concept than the legal definition of genocide. ...
Abortion, in its most common usage, refers to the voluntary or induced termination of pregnancy, generally through the use of surgical procedures or drugs. ...
Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. ...
Fratricide (from the Latin word frater, meaning: brother and cide meaning to kill) is the act of a person killing his or her brother. ...
Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or...
In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally causing the death of an infant of a given species, by members of the same species - often by the mother. ...
Mariticide (not to be confused with matricide); from the Latin maritus (married) & cidium (killing), literally means the murder of ones married partner, but has become most associated with the murder of a husband by his wife. ...
Matricide is the act of killing ones mother. ...
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Patricide is (i) the act of killing ones father, or (ii) a person who kills his or her father. ...
This article is about a kind of homicide. ...
The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a king, or the person responsible for it. ...
It has been suggested that The Pros of suicide be merged into this article or section. ...
Tyrannicide literally means the killing of a tyrant. ...
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| | This box: view • talk • edit | Negligent homicide is a charge brought against persons, who by inaction, allow others under their care to die. This offense mostly concerns itself with the death of small infants or children, the handicapped, or the elderly.[verification needed] An example of such a case is when an elderly person is allowed to accumulate bedsores, as they are not helped out of a couch or bed for a prolonged period of time and die as a result of necrotic tissue. If a more able person, often a son or daughter, was present or expected to be present during the time when the elderly person was accumulating bedsores, they may be found liable of negligent homicide, as their inaction and blatant disregard for human life resulted in the death of someone under their care. Negligent homicide generally only applies if a pattern of negligence resulted in the death of the individual. Turning your back on a child while he falls into a well, while tragic, and a result of a moment of negligence would be considered a horrible accident and a terrible lesson, not negligent homicide. This offense is considered less serious than first and second degree murder, in the sense that someone guilty of this offense can expect a more lenient sentence, often with imprisonment time comparable to manslaughter. Bedsores, also called pressure sores or decubitus ulcers, are ulcers (sores) caused by prolonged pressure or rubbing on vulnerable areas of the body. ...
Necrosis (in Greek Νεκρός = Dead) is the name given to unprogrammed death of cells/living tissue (compare with apoptosis - programmed cell death). ...
Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ...
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- Tennessee definition of criminally negligent homicide
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