page_title: Murder
section_title: Related pages
hierarchical_section_title: Murder / Related pages
caption_attribution_description: English: Assassination of Inejiro Asanuma日本語: 浅沼稲次郎暗殺事件
context_page_description: Murder is when one person kills another person on purpose. If a person does something that makes someone else die, without the intent of killing, it is homicide and may be manslaughter. An accident caused by carelessness may be negligent homicide. Sometimes, a death caused by someone else may not be a crime, for example killing in self-defense.
  A person who commits murder is called a murderer. The legal definition of "murder" and "manslaughter" may be different in different countries, and is very much argued on: for example, killing in war is not usually called "murder" by those who fight in the war. Killing in self defense is usually not "murder", but sometimes manslaughter. Many countries do not even have manslaughter as a legal concept, and only have murder; the countries that do not have manslaughter charge with murder instead. In fact, the United States did not have manslaughter on the books until the 20th century. England was the first country to indoctrinate manslaughter, and the United States was second.
context_section_description: John Wilkes Booth
  John Lennon
  Lee Harvey Oswald
  Gavrilo Princip
  James Earl Ray
  Nathuram Godse
  Otoya Yamaguchi
caption: Blurry impression of the murder of Inejiro Asanuma by Otoya Yamaguchi, October 1960
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