Murder
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"If you wish to understand the essential nature of murder, you do not begin with a discussion of something complicated or emotionally loaded, such as assisted suicide or abortion or capital punishment. Assisted suicide may or may not be murder, but determining whether such disputed cases are murder requires first that we are clear on the nature and logic of indisputable cases; we move from the uncontroversial center to the disputed remote territories. The same principle holds in aesthetic theory." --The Art Instinct, p. 50 |
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Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with "malice aforethought." The element of malice aforethought can be satisfied by an intentional killing, which is considered express malice. Malice can also be implied: deaths that occur by extreme recklessness or during certain serious crimes are considered to be express malice murders. The maximum penalty for murder is usually life imprisonment, and in jurisdictions with capital punishment, the death penalty may be imposed. As with most legal terms, the precise definition varies between jurisdictions. Unlawful killings without malice are considered manslaughter.
Essays
- On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey
See also
- Assassin
- -cide
- Crime fiction
- Female murderer
- Human sacrifice
- Lust murder
- Massacre
- Murder ballad
- Perfect murder (fiction)
- Patricide
- Serial killer
- Spree killer
- Suicide
- Thrill killing
- Torture murder
See also
- Topics related to murder
- Capital punishment
- Crime of passion
- Culpable homicide
- Depraved heart murder
- Double murder
- Execution-style murder
- Felony murder
- Misdemeanor murder
- Murder conviction without a body
- Seven laws of Noah
- Stigmatized property
- Thrill killing
