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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
in English law
Negligent homicide
Vehicular homicide
Justifiable homicide
Capital punishment
Avunculicide
Deicide
Democide
Familicide
Femicide
Filicide
Fratricide
Gendercide
Genocide
Infanticide
Mariticide
Matricide
Neonaticide
Parricide
Patricide
Regicide
Sororicide
Suicide
Tyrannicide
Uxoricide
Vivicide
Abortion
Feticide
Prolicide
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.
















