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Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, die by suicide or be killed. Genocide – the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. Homicide – the act of killing of a person (Latin: homo "man"). Justifiable homicide – a defense to culpable homicide (criminal or negligent homicide).
On the evening of 23 August 2024, a mass stabbing took place during a festival celebrating the 650th anniversary of Solingen, Germany, when a man armed with a knife killed three people and injured eight others. The motive for the attack, according to authorities, was the suspect's "radical Islamist convictions".
In 1993 Otto Gritschneder published a book on the post–World War II prosecution of those involved in the killings which lists 90 names of people killed (adding the doctor and Röhm associate Karl Günther Heimsoth to the list). [2] Richard J. Evans states that at least 85 people were killed and more than 1000 were arrested. [3]
A mass stabbing is an incident involving the use of pointed weapons to wound or kill multiple people. Mass stabbings can also be looked at from the scope of knife crime. Based on a publication by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, ‘knife-enabled crime’ is an incident where harm is threatened or caused with the use of bladed weapons. [3]
This is a list of mass or spree killers. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills two or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves. [1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [3] [4] [5]
The number of people killed with a knife in England and Wales in 2021/22 was the highest on record for 76 years. Around four in 10 homicides were committed using a knife or sharp instrument in the ...
An early mention of a spring-loaded gagging device is in F. de Calvi's L'Inventaire général de l'histoire des larrons ("General inventory of the history of thieves"), written in 1639, which attributes the invention to a robber named Capitaine Gaucherou de Palioly in the days of Henry of Navarre.
The meaning of the word decapitare can be discerned from its morphemes de-(down, from) + capit-(head). [11] The past participle of decapitare is decapitatus [ 12 ] which was used to create decapitatio , the noun form of decapitatus , in Medieval Latin, whence the French word décapitation was produced.