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homicide

In law, the killing of a human being. This may be unlawful, lawful, or excusable, depending on the circumstances. Unlawful homicides include murder, manslaughter, infanticide, and causing death by dangerous driving (vehicular homicide). Lawful homicide occurs where, for example, a police officer is justified in killing a criminal in the course of apprehension. Excusable homicide occurs when a person is killed in self-defense or by accident.

Firearm homicide rates for Americans from the ages of 15 to 24 declined from 1993 to 1995. A study released in August 1998 by the National Center for Health Statistics shows that firearm homicides declined in the largest metropolitan areas an average of 8% each of those years and more than 15% in medium metropolitan areas.



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But (they say) a certain Cephalus, the son of Deion, an Athenian, who owned a hound which no beast ever escaped, had accidentally killed his wife Procris, and being purified of the homicide by the Cadmeans, hunted the fox with his hound, and when they had overtaken it both hound and fox were turned into stones near Teumessus.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
mix with the people, or visit the scenes, familiar to the experience of men (in fact and in fiction), who had traced the homicide to his hiding-place, and had marked him among his harmless fellow-creatures with the brand of Cain?
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Depraved as a girl, adulterous as a wife, an unnatural sister, homicide, poisoner, execrated by all who knew her, by every nation that had been visited by her, she died accursed by Heaven and earth.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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