This article is about a kind of homicide. For the Icelandic band with the same name see Sororicide (band).

Sororicide is the act of killing one's own sister. It derives from the Latin soror for sister and -cide, derived from caedere, to cut or kill. Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ... 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. ... Consensual homicide refers to a killing in which the victim wants to die. ... Negligent homicide is a charge brought against persons, who by inaction, allow others under their care to die. ... Vehicular homicide is in most places a criminal act involving the killing of a life by hitting it with a vehicle. ... Honour killing is most often the killing of a female, but in some cases also a male, and sometimes his/her family members, love-interests or other associates,[1][2] for supposed sexual or marital offences, typically by his/her own relatives or relatives of a purported romantic interest, with... Assassin and Targeted killing redirect here. ... Ritual murder is murder performed in a ritualistic fashion. ... A proxy murder is a murder in which the murderer does so at the behest of another, acting as his or her proxy. ... 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. ... A murder suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or while killing himself. ... A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous rampage. ... Note: for practices of systematically killing very young children, see infanticide For the killing of ones own children, see filicide. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 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... 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. ... 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. ... Fratricide (from the Latin word frater, meaning: brother and cide meaning to kill) is the act of a person killing his or her brother. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Patricide. ... Patricide is (i) the act of killing ones father, or (ii) a person who kills his or her father. ... 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. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the willful act of killing oneself. ... The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a king, or the person responsible for it. ... Look up Genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Democide is a term created by political scientist R.J. Rummel in order to create a broader concept than the legal definition of genocide. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Abortion, in its most common usage, refers to the voluntary or induced termination of pregnancy, generally through the use of surgical procedures or drugs. ... Tyrannicide literally means the killing of a tyrant. ... Sororicide is a death metal band from Iceland formed in 1989. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

There are a number of examples of soricide and fratricide (the killing of one's brother) in adolescents, even pre-adolescents, where sibling rivalry and resulting physical aggression can get out of hand and lead to the death of one of them, particularly if a firearm is available or if one is significantly older than the other and misjudges his/her own strength. Fratricide (from the Latin word frater, meaning: brother and cide meaning to kill) is the act of a person killing his or her brother. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Compare with child murder (the killing of an unrelated child), infanticide (killing of an infant under the age of one year), filicide (the killing of a child by his or her parent), and patricide and matricide (the killing of a father or mother respectively by his or her child). Note: for practices of systematically killing very young children, see infanticide For the killing of ones own children, see filicide. ... 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. ... Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. ... Patricide is (i) the act of killing ones father, or (ii) a person who kills his or her father. ... Matricide is the act of killing ones mother. ...

Known or suspected sororicides

• According to Roman mythology, one of the Horatii killed his sister after she mourned an enemy he had slain, who had happened to be her fiancé.
• Berenice IV of Egypt is believed to have poisoned her sister Cleopatra VI Tryphaena in 57 BC.
• Cleopatra of Egypt requested the execution of her sister, Arsinoe IV, which was carried out under the orders of her lover Mark Antony in 41 BC.
• Roman Emperor Caligula, according to historian Suetonius, killed his sister Drusilla after learning that she was pregnant with his child in 38 AD. Most historians now believe that she probably died of fever.
• Roman Emperor Commodus ordered his older sister Lucilla to be put to death in 182 AD, after she was implicated in plots with members of the Senate to overthrow him.
• Dipendra of Nepal (1971-2001) reportedly massacred much of his family at a royal dinner on June 1, 2001, including his father, mother, brother, and sister Princess Shruti.
• Canadian serial killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo raped, then accidentally murdered Karla's sister Tammy (1990).

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Sororicides in fiction

• In William Shakespeare's King Lear, Goneril poisons her sister Regan in their struggle for power.
• In the 1962 movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (as well as the 1991 TV movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), sisters Blanche and Jane mistreat and attempt to kill each other out of jealousy and hatred.

• In Halloween (film) series, serial killer Michael Myers (Halloween) slays his sister.
• In Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly, the village forces twin sisters to partake in a ritual in which one sister strangles the other. In the 'bad ending', Mio Amakura does indeed strangle her twin sister Mayu to death. (The other documented instance of sororicide is when Azami Kiryu kills her sister Akane.)
• in Child Ballad #10, "The Twa Sisters", or "The Dreadful Wind and Rain" the older sister murders the younger sister over the love of a man, and the younger sister's bones are found by a wandering musician who makes an instrument (either a harp or a fiddle, depending on the version) out of them and strings it with her hair. The instrument then tells the story of how she died, usually resulting in a gruesome death for the older sister.