What status must a person be to be "assasinated" instead of just murdered or killed?

Question

i.e. Lincoln was assasinated, Kennedy was assasinated, but what must your stature or status be for the homicide to be considered an assasination?

Answer 1

There is no status limitations. If a person is killed in order to satisfy an agenda, or to get them out of the way it is considered an assassination.

Answer 2

I think you have to be able to find at least 1000 people in at least 5 different states of at least 3 different races that liked you...
then you are considered "assassinated"..

If only your mama can id you, and half the neighborhood hates you and only one race knows you, you were basically killed.

If you are a cop, you are "slain"

If you are a parent or a young woman with an honest job..I think you are murdered.

Homicide is a word that is usually only used by law enforcement.

Answer 3

Someone who is holding a political office of a country usually the leader of a country.

Answer 4

History would lead me to believe that assassination is used to refer to the murder of a political figure, and the reason being political and not personal.

Answer 5

Generally it's someone, usually a leader of some kind, killed for ideological reasons.

Answer 6

Because, "Assasinate" just sounds better than murder.

Answer 7

Technically, a "prominent" person. However, we tend to think of assassination in political terms.

Answer 8

Ivan the terrible got it right. Give him the ten points.

Answer 9

You were a president...or congress...or everyone on the planet knew you!