What does homicide mean?
hom⋅i⋅cide –noun 1. the killing of one human being by another. 2. a person who kills another; murderer.
The official name for a person who investigates murder scenes...?
I was just wondering if there is an official name for someone who who investigates murder scenes, like a murder detective haha... cause that's what im interested in being right now. Like Jules and Lassiter from Psych...
If a person with multiple-personalities tries to commit suicide, is it a homicide?
I think that one of the other personalities would have to kill the host personality for it to be murder. if it is the host killing themselves then it would be sucide... tell me you are at work and bored to come up with this question lol
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
As your question implies, every assassination is a murder, but every murder is not considered an assassination. Point One - An Assassination is a First Degree MurderThe (legal) definition of murder in the United States generally includes killing with:"malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, such as robbery or arson (first-degree murder), andmurder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)." http://dictionary.reference.com/...Assassination would not include second-degree murder. All assassinations are first-degree murders. Point Two - Assassination doesn't generally have a "legal" definitionUnlike Murder (or first- or second-degree Murder), the definition of assassination doesn't generally have a technical legal definition.The two most prominent references to assassination under the US Code both refer to the killing of government officials:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscod...andhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/uscod...But the term isn't generally defined.Point Three - The definition of Assassination is generally any premeditated killing, especially of a political or prominent person.As a result of not having a technical legal definition, Assassination is defined much more loosely than murder. It is generally understood to mean any killing, especially that of a prominent person. http://dictionary.reference.com/...However, the definition is broad enough to include the intentional killing of any individual, not just a politically prominent one. So, the answer to your question is:Someone doesn't technically have to be considered prominent, at all, to be considered assassinated (if they are murdered); the term doesn't require prominence of the victim, the usage is simply more common in such a circumstance.
Is it possible for a person to murder themself?
When this guy close to where I live committed suicide (killed himself) this girl said he "Murdered himself". I think she is wrong though. I do not think it is murder if a person kills themself I thought it is only murder when one person intentionally kills another person I think.it is NOT possible for a person to murder themself. If you google the defintion of murder it says the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
What is the difference between murder, homicide, execution, and manslaughter?
Murder - the killing of anything illegally Homicide - the act of killing another human being unlawfully. Manslaughter - killing another person without intending to. ( unpremeditated) Execution - the killing of somebody as part of a legal process. All the words ( murder, homicide, execution, manslaughter) have different causes with the same result.
If it is proven that one of the two people committed a murder but can't prove which one, then will the jury find both of them guilty or not guilty?
Not to worry. This rarely happens. In the facts that you have given, the prosecution is able to show, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the murder was not accidental and occurred by the actions of a person, and that the person acting was not anyone else in the world. So, the prosecutor knows a lot about how the murder went down. The prosecutor will thus likely have enough to prove that, with respect to each defendant, that defendant was involved. But, if the police break into a locked room AND find two assailants covered in blood that matches the victim AND neither one rats out the other AND some other facts, then it may be that neither defendant is convicted of the murder and instead is convicted of a lesser crime. Change the facts to include that there are two knives in the victim, each with fingerprints, one per assailant, perhaps both get convicted even if the prosecutor cannot show which stab wound was the one that caused the death.
What is the difference between Homicide and Murder?
Homicide is the killing of one person by another. Murder is the intentional unlawful killing of one person by another. All murder is homicide, but not all homicide is murder. Killing someone in legal self defense is homicide but not murder. Additionally, killing someone through accidental recklessness is manslaughter (which is homicide) but not murder.
What is the difference between homicide from murder?
Homicide is the generic term to describe when one person kills another person, regardless if it was intentional, unintentional, pre-meditated or not-pre-meditated. Murder, however, deals with the malicious intent to commit a killing. If a person breaks into your house while you are asleep, attempts to kill you, you pull out your gun and shoot and kill him... generally, that is "homicide" but not "murder." And it's usually "justifiable homicide." If you hate your next door neighbor, plan to shoot him on Tuesday, and actually shoot him that night - that is indeed "homicide" - but you will most likely be found to have committed a malicious intent to "murder" as well. All murder is homicide, but not all homicide is murder.