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Femicide, gynecide, gynaecide, or gynocide – the systematic killing of women. Feticide – the killing of an embryo or fetus. Fragging – the act of killing a fellow soldier. Gendercide – the systematic killing of members of a specific sex or gender. Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, die by suicide or be killed.
Different areas of the world experience femicide varyingly, i.e., the Middle East and South Asia have higher rates of honor killing: the murder of women by their family, due to an actual or assumed sexual or behavioral transgression, such as adultery, sexual intercourse, or even having been raped.
Multiple murders committed within one criminal transaction or in different transactions as part of one broader scheme; Murder of a police officer, [57] [58] judge, firefighter or witness to a crime [59] Murder of a pregnant woman [60] Crime committed for pay or other reward, such as contract killing [61] Exceptional brutality or cruelty ...
According to an analysis of the London Times' reports of murder (1887-1990) by Danson and Soothill (1996), there is a much higher proportion of British male murder-suicides, in general, than female. Overwhelmingly the women committing murder-suicide tend to kill their children and then themselves.
A 33-year-old man was charged Monday for allegedly setting on fire and killing a woman on a New York subway train in what authorities called a “brutal murder” and an example of “depraved ...
Other terms, such as "gynocide" and "femicide," have been used to refer to the wrongful killing of girls and women. Nevertheless, "gendercide" is a sex-neutral term in that the victims may be either male or female. There is a need for such a sex-neutral term since sexually discriminatory killing is just as wrong when the victims happen to be male.
An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing [1] is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the ...
Marvin Charles Gabrion, II (Michigan): Sentenced in 2002 for killing a woman on federal land. ... Sentenced in 2009 for his involvement in the death of a Naval officer in a murder-for-hire plot.