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Homicide

Assassination
Child murder
Consensual homicide
Contract killing
Felony murder
Honour killing
Human sacrifice
Lust murder
Lynching
Mass murder
Murder-suicide
Proxy murder
Ritual murder
Serial killer
Spree killer
Torture murder

Manslaughter

in English law
Negligent homicide
Vehicular homicide

Non-criminal homicide

Justifiable homicide
Capital punishment

Other types of homicide

Avunculicide
Deicide
Democide
Familicide
Femicide
Filicide
Fratricide
Gendercide
Genocide
Infanticide
Mariticide
Matricide
Neonaticide
Parricide
Patricide
Regicide
Sororicide
Suicide
Tyrannicide
Uxoricide
Vivicide

"Homicide" status disputed

Abortion
Feticide
Prolicide

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Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being.[1] It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English. Homicide is not always an illegal act.

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