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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").
An act such as murder is wrong or evil by its very nature, and it is the very nature of the act which does not require any specific detailing or definition in the law to consider murder a crime. [26] Some jurisdictions still take a common law view of murder.
For two persons to be complicit in a crime that does not involve negligence, they must share the same criminal intent; "there must be a community of purpose, partnership in the unlawful undertaking". [1]: 731 An accomplice "is a partner in the crime, the chief ingredient of which is always intent".
In the term "malignant narcissism", the word "malignant" is used in the sense described by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as "passionately and relentlessly malevolent, aggressively malicious". [16] In malignant narcissism, NPD is accompanied by additional symptoms of antisocial, paranoid and sadistic personality disorders. While a person with ...
Psychiatrist Reginald Medlicott published an article about the Parker–Hulme murder case, called "Paranoia of the Exalted Type in a Setting of Folie a Deux – A Study of Two Adolescent Homicides," arguing that the intense relationship and shared fantasy world of the two teenaged friends reinforced and exacerbated the mental illness that led ...
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States
Parricide is the deliberate killing of one's own father and mother, spouse (husband or wife), children, and/or close relatives. However, the term is sometimes used more generally to refer to the intentional killing of a near relative. [1]
A youth accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy on London’s Primrose Hill on New Year’s Eve told a court he carried a knife after attacks on friends and family made him “paranoid”.