Murder

thumb|Cain and Abel|Cain slaying Abel, by [[Peter Paul Rubens, ]]

act of killing a large number of people by non-state actors

practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings

frontier justice

a film that depicts murder for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation

form of murder

thumb|A detail from The Haywain Triptych by [[Hieronymus Bosch]]

thumb|The Execution of Lady Jane Grey Delaroche detail

threat to kill

Democide, or populicide, refers to "the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command". The term, coined by Holocaust historian and statistics expert R. J. Rummel in his book Death by Government, has been described by renowned Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer as a better term than genocide to refer to certain types of mass killing. According to Rummel, this definition covers a wide range of deaths, including forced labor and concentration camp victims, extrajudicial summary kill

Tyrannicide or tyrannomachia is the killing or assassination of a tyrant or unjust ruler, purportedly for the common good, and usually by one of the tyrant's subjects. Tyrannicide was legally permitted and encouraged in Classical Greece. Often, the term "tyrant" was a justification for political murders by rivals, but in some exceptional cases students of Platonic philosophy risked their lives against tyrants. The killing of Clearchus of Heraclea in 353 BC by a cohort led by his own court philosopher is an example of a tyrannicide. A person who carries out a tyrannicide is also called a "tyran

Gendercide or Gender-related killing is the systematic murder of members of a specific gender. The term is related to the general concepts of assault and murder against victims due to their gender, with violence against men and women being problems which are dealt with by human rights organizations. The term 'gendercide' is similar to the term 'genocide' because gendercide is a form of mass murder; however, the perpetrators of gendercide solely target members of one gender. Politico-military frameworks have historically inflicted militant-governed divisions between femicide and androcide; gend

part of the Ten Commandments (20:13)

murder in which the offender is motivated by the sexual desire to kill another person

violent crime which is done because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage

intentional and premeditated killing of an innocent person by means of capital punishment

In Greek mythology, the Phonoi (, from the plural of ) are collectively the personification of murder. In Hesiod's Theogony, the Phonoi are listed among the children of Eris (Strife). The Phonoi are named in line 228 of the Theogony, which lists four personified plural abstractions, the Hysminai (Combats), the Machai (Battles), the Phonoi (Murders), and the Androktasiai (Slaughters), as being among the offspring of Eris (Strife): Ὑσμίνας τε Μάχας τε Φόνους τ’ Ἀνδροκτασίας τε

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unnatural death caused by economic factors

sex based murder of a female during pregnancy or up to a year afterwards

journalistic term

campaign to oppose Caribbean artists that produce music with lyrics alleged to glorify murder of homosexual men

Scholarly and international legal definitions of genocide