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Homicide
Murder
Felony murder
Consensual homicide
Negligent homicide
Vehicular homicide
Honour killing
Assassination
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Proxy murder
Torture murder
Murder-suicide
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Child murder
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Serial killer
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Manslaughter
In English law
Non-criminal homicide
Justifiable homicide
Capital punishment
Other types of homicide
Democide
Deicide
Familicide
Filicide
Fratricide
Genocide
Infanticide
Mariticide
Matricide
Parricide
Patricide
Regicide
Sororicide
Uxoricide

Mariticide (from Latin maritus "married" + -cide, from caedere "to cut, to kill") literally means the murder of one's married partner, but has become most associated with the murder of a husband by his wife, as the reverse is given the name uxoricide.


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  • Uxoricide, the practice of killing one's wife
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