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Societies have sanctioned murder (pursuant to a death penalty) when committed by a government. Although justification for such killings is commonly advanced by claiming a retributive purpose (this reasoning goes back to biblical times), it is a form of profound denial to claim they are completely free of "malice aforethought". Attempts to legitimize such killings through social consensus do not negate their moral status as murder. There is no question that such killings are "deliberate and premeditated." The universally experienced discomfort connected with killing another human being has yet to be fully owned up to in the few jurisdictions where the death penalty is legal.
Killings associated with war are similarly excused as something other than murder. At its core, the distinction is conceptual and illusory.
Remember, murder and killing are distinctly different legal concepts.
Killing is causing the death of another person.
Murder is a legal definition of certain types of killing. By definition, an illegal killing is murder, and thus, murder is always illegal.
Virtually all known societies have situations where killing is perfectly legal: such situations can depend on a great deal of variables, from the "who did" the killing, do "who was" killed, to the actions of either at the time of the killing, to other conditions in force at the time of the killing. All of these circumstances must be collected together to determine if a killing is murder or not. If the killing is deemed illegal, then it becomes murder.
Thus, murder is never legal anywhere.
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Roger Jensen
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yeah in New York, where my buddy Eric used to live.
phakue1119
In Israel. If you're shooting at unarmed Palestinian women and children. Perfectly legal
Jeffrey [STUDENT] Gr...
i dont think so it used to be in some places but enless your playing videogames i dont think it is anywere besides the goverment
Araysh Inferno
Depends on who's in charge. If you have the Taleban for instance they murder people like they are animals. While in Canada it is not legal to kill. So yes. In a lot of places, it is legal.
Zralarm America
Court Judges order it!
Aaron Stevenson
yes
CALEB MILLER
ye
Shreesai Harshill Pr...
It is not legal
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No, it is murder.
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No. An assassination by its very nature is murder and illegal.
