Homicide Totally Explained

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

Homicidal crimes

Criminal homicide is a malum in se crime, and every legal system contains some form of prohibition or regulation of criminal homicide.
Homicidal crimes in some criminal jurisdictions include:

Murder/murder in English law
- Felony murder
- Capital murder
Manslaughter/manslaughter in English law
Criminal Homicide
- Culpable homicide (in Scots law)
- Negligent homicide
- Criminally negligent homicide

Many forms of homicide have their own term based on the person being killed.

Infanticide - Killing of an infant

Fratricide - Killing of one's brother; in a military context, killing of a friendly combatant

Sororicide - Killing of one's sister

Parricide - Killing of one's parents

Patricide - Killing of one's father

Matricide - Killing of one's mother

Mariticide - Killing of one's spouse

Uxoricide - Killing of one's wife

Filicide - Killing of one's child

Regicide - Killing of a monarch.

Genocide - Killing of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group

Non-criminal homicide

Homicides don't always involve a crime. Sometimes the law allows homicide by allowing certain defenses to criminal charges. One of the most recognized is self defense, which provides that a person is entitled to commit homicide to protect his or her own life from a deadly attack. Some defenses include:

Self-defense (theory)

Insanity defense

Duress

State-sanctioned homicide

Homicides may also be non-criminal when conducted with the sanction of the state. The most obvious example is capital punishment, in which the state determines that a person should die, but homicides committed during war are usually not subject to criminal prosecution as well.

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