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the only category of death you legally have to argue your way out of.
means The killing of one human being by another, whether deliberate, reckless, or accidental — a neutral umbrella term that covers everything from murder to legally justified killing.
from From Latin homicidium, 'the slaying of a person,' welding homo ('human being,' the same root that gives us 'human') to -cida/-cidium, from caedere, 'to cut down, kill' — the same lethal verb hiding in suicide, genocide, and pesticide. It reached English through Old French homicide, carrying both meanings at once: the act of killing and, oddly, sometimes the killer himself.
- not always crime
- Includes legal killings like self-defense and war
- latin root
- From homo and caedere, to slay a man
- justifiable kind
- Some homicides are ruled lawful by law
- detective fuel
- Built an entire genre of fiction and TV
- ancient ranking
- Cain committed the first one in scripture
ted bundy murders — 30+ confirmed victims across multiple states, 1974-1978
sharon tate murders — 1969 manson family killings of actress and 4 others, los angeles