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Why is it when someone famous gets killed its an assassination but someone normal its murder?
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∙ 14y ago
The use of the word assassination is to describe a killing on behalf of someone else. If a hitman is paid to kill a grocery store clerk - its still an assassination. Perhaps there is too much improper useage of the word by the media when describing a 'murder' of a celebrity.
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∙ 14y ago
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What is a murder of a public official called?
Murder covers most types of killing someone. If an official in government is killed for ideology reasons, sometimes its called assassination.
How would you describe assassination?
a murder in which the target is killed without him knowing
How do you assassinated?
Assassination is term when you are an assassin and you murder someone sorta like a hit man.
Who did Andrew Johnson get famous?
When he was chosen to be Lincoln's vice president and then after the assassination on Lincoln he was accused of having to do with the murder
When can a person be retried for murder?
You can be charged with murder if there is evidence that you have committed murder - you dont necessarily have to have killed someone - you may be framed. Also, say you are robbing someone and someone is killed in the process, you may be charged with felony murder in it blood?
Is murder the same as attempted murder?
No, murder means you killed someone. Attempted murder means you tried to kill someone. You could still go to jail, though.
What was Gandhi's and Martin Luther King Jr's killing an example of?
When influential people are killed it is usually called assassination, when everyone else is killed in the same way it is murder.
What is the synonym for assassination?
Murder, homicide.
Was Caesar's assassination legal?
No. An assassination by its very nature is murder and illegal.
What is it means assassination?
Assassination is the murder of a prominent person, usually for political purposes.
What percentage of the worlds population has killed someone either in war or murder?
43.5.
What word describes political murder?
Assassination.
