"Learchus (regicide) Learchus () was an adviser in the government of the Kingdom of Cyrenaica during the reign of king Arcesilaus II. Learchus is best known for perpetrating the murder of this very same Arcesilaus II. Little is known about Learchus, besides what is written in Plutarch's ""Moralia"" and the ""Histories"" by Herodotus, who mentions him in passing. Learchus appears to have been an early acquaintance of murder, having killed a Cyrenaean noble who was the husband of the Princess Critola and father of Queen Eryxo. When Battus II of Cyrene died, his son Arcesilaus II ascended the throne, along"
"Democide Democide is a term proposed by R. J. Rummel since at least 1994 who defined it as """"the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command"""". According to him, this definition covers a wide range of deaths, including forced labor and concentration camp victims; killings by ""unofficial"" private groups; extrajudicial summary killings; and mass deaths due to the governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect, such as in deliberate famines, as well as killings by ""de facto"" governments, i.e. civil war killings. This"
"Democide Democide is a term proposed by R. J. Rummel since at least 1994 who defined it as """"the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command"""". According to him, this definition covers a wide range of deaths, including forced labor and concentration camp victims; killings by ""unofficial"" private groups; extrajudicial summary killings; and mass deaths due to the governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect, such as in deliberate famines, as well as killings by ""de facto"" governments, i.e. civil war killings. This"
"definition covers any murder of any number of persons by any government. Rummel created the term as an extended concept to include forms of government murder not covered by the term genocide. According to Rummel, democide surpassed war as the leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th century. Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder. Democide is not necessarily the elimination of entire cultural groups but rather groups within the country that the government feels need to be eradicated for political reasons and due to claimed future threats."
"Genocide Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part. The hybrid word ""genocide"" is a combination of the Greek word ""génos"" (""race, people"") and the Latin suffix ""-cide"" (""act of killing""). The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as ""acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group"". The term genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in his 1944 book ""Axis Rule in Occupied Europe""; it has been applied to the"
"were disinterred and hanged, drawn and quartered in posthumous executions. In 1662, three more regicides John Okey, John Barkstead and Miles Corbet were also hanged, drawn and quartered. The officers of the court that tried Charles I, those who prosecuted him and those who signed his death warrant, have been known ever since the restoration as regicides. The Parliamentary Archives in the Palace of Westminster, London, holds the original death warrant of Charles I. Different cultures and authors in history have used different definitions for what constitute the crime of regicide, as such it is difficult to make a universally"
"Genocides in history Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) of 1948 as ""any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the groups"
"Regicides Trail Regicides Trail is a ""Blue-Blazed"" hiking trail, about 7 miles (11 km) long, roughly following the edge of a diabase, or traprock, cliff northwest of New Haven, Connecticut. It is named for two regicides, Edward Whalley and his son-in-law William Goffe, who signed the death warrant of King Charles I of England. Upon the restoration of Charles II to the throne and the persecution of the regicides, the pair hid in Judges Cave near the south end of the trail in 1660. The trail is a narrow footpath marked with blue blazes, sometimes rocky with difficult footing. It"
"though the monarchy was rightly ended in 1792, the lives of the royal family should have been spared. Lack of compassion at that moment contributed to a radicalization of revolutionary violence and to greater divisiveness among Frenchmen. For the 20th century novelist Albert Camus the execution signaled the end of the role of God in history, for which he mourned. For the 20th century philosopher Jean-François Lyotard the regicide was the starting point of all French thought, the memory of which acts as a reminder that French modernity began under the sign of a crime. Louis' daughter, Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, the future"
"Deicide Deicide is the killing (or the killer) of a god. The concept may be used for any act of killing a god, including a life-death-rebirth deity who is killed and then resurrected. The term deicide was coined in the 17th century from medieval Latin ""*deicidium"", from ""de-us"" ""god"" and ""-cidium"" ""cutting, killing."" According to the New Testament accounts, the Judean (or Jewish) authorities in Jerusalem, the Pharisees, charged Jesus with blasphemy, a capital crime under biblical law, and sought his execution. According to , the Judean (Jewish) authorities claimed to lack the authority to have Jesus put to death,"
"conviction. John Christie (murderer) John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people – including his wife, Ethel – by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953; soon afterward the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in a wallpaper-covered alcove in the kitchen. Two further bodies were discovered in the garden, and"
"Familicide A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which a perpetrator kills multiple close family members in quick succession, most often children, spouse, siblings, or parents. In half the cases, the killer then kills themselves in a murder-suicide. If only the parents are killed, the case may also be referred to as a parricide. Where all members of a family are killed, the crime may be referred to as family annihilation. Familicides were used as an enhanced punishment in antiquity. In ancient China, the ""nine familial exterminations"" was the killing of an entire extended family or clan,"
"Ritualcide Ritualcide is the systematic destruction or alteration of traditional ritual practices and their sequencing. Rituals have a prescribed form, source, and sequence that include sacred objects, places, times and seasons, music, dance, texts, songs and words, and mediators (such as monks, spirit mediums, religious leaders, and traditional healers). Ritualcide is not necessarily linked to genocide, but ""genocidal priming"" may gain a handhold when regimes tamper with collective tradition and leave inhabitants vulnerable and/or susceptible to spirit-based harm and angst. Herein ancestral pathways for intimate connection are often disrupted. The term ""ritualcide"" was coined by Peg LeVine in ""Love and"
"a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group so defined by the perpetrator."" Some critics of the international definition argued that the definition was influenced by Joseph Stalin to exclude political groups. According to R. J. Rummel, genocide has multiple meanings. The ordinary meaning is murder by a government of people due to their national, ethnic, racial, or religious group membership. The legal meaning is defined by CCPG. This includes actions such as preventing births or forcibly transferring children to another group. Rummel created the term democide to include assaults"
"Gendercide Gendercide is the systematic killing of members of a specific gender. The term is related to the general concepts of assault and murder against victims due to their gender, with violence against women and men being problems dealt with by human rights efforts. Gendercide shares similarities with the term 'genocide' in inflicting mass murders; however, gendercide targets solely one gender, being men or women. Politico-military frameworks have historically inflicted militant-governed divisions between femicide, and androcide; gender-selective policies increase violence on gendered populations due to their socioeconomic significance. Gendercide is reported to be a rising problem in several countries. Census"
"been term massacres, though not all such killings have been so named. The term ""democide"" has been coined by Rudolph Rummel to describe ""murder by government"" in general, which includes both extrajudicial killings and widespread systematic homicide. Killing by government might be called ""murder"" or ""mass murder"" in general usage, especially if seen by the commentator as unethical, but the domestic legal definitions of murder, manslaughter, etc., usually exclude killings carried out by lawful government action. Deliberate massacres of captives or civilians during wartime or periods of civil unrest by the state's military forces, include those committed by Genghis Khan,"
"Filicide Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word ""filicide"" derives from the Latin words ""filius"" meaning ""son"" or ""filia"" meaning daughter, and the suffix ""-cide"" meaning to kill, murder, or cause death. ""Filicide"" may refer both to the parent who killed his or her child, as well as to the criminal act that the parent committed. A 1999 United States Department of Justice study concluded that between 1976 and 1997 in the United States, mothers were responsible for a higher share of children killed during infancy, while fathers were more likely to have"
"John Christie (murderer) John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people – including his wife, Ethel – by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953; soon afterward the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in a wallpaper-covered alcove in the kitchen. Two further bodies were discovered in the garden, and his"
"the regicide – the bodies of Bradshaw, Cromwell and Henry Ireton were ordered to be exhumed and displayed in chains all day on the gallows at Tyburn. At sunset, the three bodies that had been displayed publicly as those of the three judges being executed posthumously were all beheaded. The bodies were thrown into a common pit and the heads displayed on pikes at Westminster Hall. Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary that he saw the heads there on 5 February. Some sources claim that the body of Thomas Bradshaw had previously been removed by his son, James or John"
"but once again escaped in time. By 1679, no record of Goffe’s whereabouts are and was presumed dead shortly after. Another traditional account has him later living in Stow, Massachusetts, where his sister resided, dying in Stow, and being buried in the Stow Lower Cemetery under an unmarked granite slab. The three regicides are commemorated by three intersecting streets in New Haven (""Dixwell Avenue"", ""Whalley Avenue"", and ""Goffe Street""), Hadley, and in some neighbouring Connecticut towns as well. William Goffe William Goffe (1605?–1679?) was an English Roundhead politician and soldier, perhaps best known for his role in the execution of"
"Homicide Homicide is the act of one human killing another. A homicide requires only a volitional act by another person that results in death, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no intent to cause harm. Homicides can be divided into many overlapping legal categories, including murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, killing in war (either following the laws of war or as a war crime), euthanasia, and capital punishment, depending on the circumstances of the death. These different types of homicides are often treated very differently in human societies; some are considered"
"Femicide Femicide or feminicide is a sex-based hate crime term, broadly defined as ""the intentional killing of females (women or girls) because they are females"", though definitions vary depending on the cultural context. Feminist author Diana E. H. Russell was the first person to define and disseminate this term in 1976. She defines the word as ""the killing of females by males because they are female."" Other feminists place emphasis on the intention or purpose of the act being directed at females specifically because they are female; others include the killing of females by females. Often, the necessity of defining"
"and he was subsequently beheaded on 30 January 1649. The execution of Charles I would be the lens through which the Puritan movement was viewed for generations. For its opponents, the outcome confirmed that Puritanism ultimately led to violent rebellion, and that there was a straight line from religious fanaticism to regicide. The largest single group of Puritans, the Presbyterians, had in fact opposed the regicide, but to the supporters of the king and of episcopacy, this seemed like too fine a distinction. On the other hand, for many Independents, the regicide was entirely justified: Charles was a man who"
"Tyrannicide Tyrannicide is the killing or assassination of a tyrant or unjust ruler, usually for the common good, and usually by one of the tyrant's subjects. The term originally denoted the action of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who are often called the Tyrannicides, in killing Hipparchus of Athens in 514 BC. Tyrannicide can also be a political theory, and as such dates from antiquity. Support for tyrannicide can be found in Plutarch's ""Lives"", Cicero's ""De Officiis"", and Seneca's ""Hercules Furens"". Plato describes a violent tyrant as the opposite of a good and ""true king"" in the ""Statesman"", and while Aristotle in"
"According to Rummel, genocide has three different meanings. The objectives of democide include the disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups; the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity; and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups. Some examples of democide cited by Rummel include the Great Purges carried out by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, the deaths from the colonial policy in the Congo Free State, and Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, which resulted in a famine that killed millions of"
"Foeticide Foeticide (or feticide) is an act that causes the death of a fetus. The suffix ""-icide"" is added in place of ""fetus""' last syllable. It derives back to ""occido"", a Latin term meaning ""to fell or to kill."" Other examples include homicide, genocide, infanticide, matricide, and regicide. In the U.S., most crimes of violence are covered by state law, not federal law. Thirty-eight (38) states currently recognize the ""unborn child"" (the term usually used) or fetus as a homicide victim, and twenty-three (23) of those states apply this principle throughout the period of pre-natal development. These laws do not"
"spousal revenge killings see their own children as objects. In the United States, homicide is in the top five causes of deaths of children, and in the top three causes of death in children aged between 1 and 4 years old. A direct correlation has been identified between child abuse rates and child homicide rates. Research suggests children who are murdered by their parent(s) were physically abused victims prior to death. This is often seen as an indicator of domestic violence. Filicide Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word ""filicide"" derives from the"
"father of the regicide Henry Marten. Sir Henry Marten second son George Giles Martin, was a loyalist as well. George was Lord Mayor of Belfast, Ireland, until disposed of home and employment by Oliver Cromwell. George Giles Martin became a tobacco producer and was the Speaker of the House of the Assembly of Barbados in 1665. Sir Henry Marten died on 26 September 1641 at Bray, Berkshire, England and was buried at Saint Mary's Church, at Longworth, Oxfordshire, England with his wife Elizabeth, who had died in 1618. A portrait of Sir Henry Martin hangs in Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Sir"
"Soviet-dominated areas and witnessing a general despair, which helped inspire the book's beginnings. Gendercide Gendercide is the systematic killing of members of a specific gender. The term is related to the general concepts of assault and murder against victims due to their gender, with violence against women and men being problems dealt with by human rights efforts. Gendercide shares similarities with the term 'genocide' in inflicting mass murders; however, gendercide targets solely one gender, being men or women. Politico-military frameworks have historically inflicted militant-governed divisions between femicide, and androcide; gender-selective policies increase violence on gendered populations due to their socioeconomic"
"Priscilla Ford Priscilla Joyce Ford (February 10, 1929 – January 29, 2005) was a mass murderer who was sentenced to death after driving her 1974 blue Lincoln Continental down a sidewalk in downtown Reno, Nevada on Thanksgiving Day in 1980. The attack killed six people and injured 23 more. Ford had been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia with violent tendencies, she had been treated and released by seven different hospitals before moving to Reno in 1980. Ford launched numerous appeals against her death sentence, all of which failed. A heavy smoker, she died at the age of 75 after suffering"
"kill, murder"". According to the Priestly Code of the Book of Numbers, killing anyone outside the context of war with a weapon, or in unarmed combat, is considered ""retzach"", but if the killing is accidental, the accused must flee to one of the cities of refuge—and remain in that city until the high priest dies, or the “revenger of blood” can kill the accused with no legal repercussions. The Bible never uses the word ""retzach"" in conjunction with war. The act of slaying itself, regardless of questions of bloodguilt, is expressed with the verb ""n-k-h"" ""to strike, smite, hit, beat,"
"destruction. Whereas the genocide assassinates the people in their body, the ethnocide kills them in their spirit. Ethnocide Ethnocide refers to extermination of national culture as a genocide component. Reviewing the legal and academic history of usage of the terms genocide and ethnocide, Bartolomé Clavero differentiates between them in that ""Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls"". In addition, ""since cultural genocide can only be the cultural dimension ""of"" genocide"", the idea of ethnocide is more than just ""cultural genocide"", but also part of broader genocidal process. Because concepts such as cultural genocide"
"Ethnocide Ethnocide refers to extermination of national culture as a genocide component. Reviewing the legal and academic history of usage of the terms genocide and ethnocide, Bartolomé Clavero differentiates between them in that ""Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls"". In addition, ""since cultural genocide can only be the cultural dimension ""of"" genocide"", the idea of ethnocide is more than just ""cultural genocide"", but also part of broader genocidal process. Because concepts such as cultural genocide and ethnocide have been used in different contexts, the anthropology of genocide examines their inclusion and exclusion"