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  2. Murder–suicide - Wikipedia

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    A murder–suicide is an act where an individual intentionally kills one or more people before killing themselves. The combination of murder and suicide can take various forms: Suicide after or during murder inflicted on others Suicide after murder to escape criminal punishment(s) Suicide after murder as a form of self-punishment due to guilt

  3. List of types of killing - Wikipedia

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    Massacre, mass murder or spree killing – the killing of many people. Murder – the malicious and unlawful killing of a human by another human. Manslaughter - murder, but under legally mitigating circumstances. Omnicide – the act of killing all humans, to create intentional extinction of the human species (Latin: omni "all, everyone").

  4. Justifiable homicide - Wikipedia

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    Justifiable homicide applies to the blameless killing of a person, such as in self-defense. [1]The term "legal intervention" is a classification incorporated into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, and does not denote the lawfulness or legality of the circumstances surrounding a death caused by law enforcement. [2]

  5. Murder - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. Unlawful killing of a human with malice aforethought For other uses, see Murder (disambiguation). "Murderer" redirects here. For other uses, see Murderer (disambiguation). "Double murder" redirects here. For the film, see Double Murder. Cain slaying Abel, by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1600 ...

  6. Unlawful killing - Wikipedia

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    The inquest does not normally name any individual person as responsible. [2] In R (on the application of Maughan) v Her Majesty's Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [ 3 ] the Supreme Court clarified that the standard of proof for suicide and unlawful killing in an inquest is the civil standard of the balance of probabilities and not the criminal ...

  7. Homicide - Wikipedia

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    Homicide is an act in which a person causes the death of another person.A homicide requires only a volitional act, or an omission, that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no intent to cause harm. [1]

  8. Murder in United States law - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide, of which first-degree murder and felony murder [1] are the most serious, followed by second-degree murder and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such ...

  9. Murder in English law - Wikipedia

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    The actus reus (Latin for "guilty act") of murder was defined in common law by Coke: . Murder is when a man of sound memory and of the age of discretion, unlawfully killeth within any county of the realm any reasonable creature in rerum natura under the King's peace, with malice aforthought, either expressed by the party or implied by law, so as the party wounded, or hurt, etc. die of the ...