What is the difference : Murdering, Killing, Assasinating & Executing.?

Answer 1

Murder is when a person kills another person, it is premeditated and not an act of war or self defense.

Killing is a wider act. It can include murder, manslaughter, acts of war or even butchering an animal for food. Killing is taking a life for whatever reason.

Assassination is when you kill someone for political reasons.

Executing is when the state determines through whatever course that government takes that a person has done something so harmful to society that they no longer deserve to live.

Morally, I believe the death penalty is a good thing; Ted Bundy will kill no more women, Jeffrey Dalmer will eat no more young men. Tim McVeigh will never again blow up a federal building killing 168 people. It is the ultimate deterrent

Answer 2

1. Murder is a crime, and it always will be.

2. Killing is not necessarily a crime, and is sometimes necessary for self-preservation or the defense of others incapable of defending themselves.

3. Assassination is the deliberate murder of a person of importance - usually a political figure.

4. Executing is the killing of someone - usually as a punishment for a horrific crime, but it is sometimes done for political reasons, so it is related to assassination.

The ONLY one of the above that is ever really justifiable is killing in the defense of yourself or others in a life-threatening situation. Even though somebody might deserve the death penalty, the possibility of making an error is far too great to go through with it. Besides, I think life behind bars would be worse than the death penalty.

Answer 3

Murder can be premeditated or not, and is done for revenge, burglary, jealousy or other purposes unacceptable and punishable by society.

Killing is acceptable/legal taking of someone's life, such as a soldier killing others in war or someone killing in self defense.

Assasination is to murder a public figure.

Execution is to kill for political reasons or as punishment carried out by the government.

Answer 4

murder is when a person causes another person to loose their life. killing is when ur in the act of killing. killing basically means the same as murder probably a synonum. assasination is when a person is paid money or other goods to kill another individual. this person who is suppose to die is normally high in stature\status. exection is when a person who committed a crazy insane crime\deed is punised. normally by hangin like in the puritan days when the people hanged the witches, or by lethal injection of some kind of poison in the arm or neck. other forms of exection may include close ranged, blind folded shots to the brain, heart...
stoning which literally means getting hit with stones until u die! yeah thats about it

Answer 5

Murder is the crime of intentionally killing someone, and is considered a crime in almost most cultures. (In fact, I cannot think of any culture that does not hold this particular belief.)

However, Killing is not always considered murder. For example, warfare is also the taking of human life, but in war a state (or a kingdom or tribe) "authorizes" killing of declared "enemies." (Such "reasoning" may be flawed, but people often accept it during times of aggression.) Killing is a generic term for ending a life, but it is not always associated with the same moral weight as murder.

Assassination is another form of murder, but can be for hire or for political gain. Assassins will kill for a price or because they believe that killing their target to offer some specific political outcome. Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by Serbian nationalists who believed that the killing of the Austrian prince would somehow permit the liberation of Serbia. That event triggered the First World War.

Execution is a term usually used to describe state authorized killing of criminals.

All these terms refer to the premeditated ending of a person's life (or the lives of many people). But some forms of killing are considered acceptable by many people in some societies at different times. Executing criminals (capital punishment) and warfare are two such "exceptions".

These terms often require at least minimal moral/ethical definition and agreement by people, and sometimes such agreement is hard to obtain. And for good reason. Killing in any form is troubling to most people on moral grounds, and yet, many people also agree that in some instances killing is a moral imperative.

Societies have often struggled with the notions of what constitutes acceptable forms of killing. Some contemporary societies, like many in Western Europe, have decided that capital punishment cannot be morally supported within the society (and so they opt for other forms of punishment, like incarceration for life).

(There are some caveats in some cultures, like the concept of a "murder of passion". Such concepts are attempts by society to find exceptions or workarounds to broaden the basic concept of killing, perhaps to find "lesser" and "greater" instances.)

Answer 6

Murder and killing are what regular folks do. Someone with stature gets assassinated and executing is what society does to a person for crimes against society.

Answer 7

Murdering = Killing close people in your life

Assassinating = Somebody told you to kill somebody else

Killing = Killing people you don't know and in large amounts

Executing = Killing a really really bad person

(hope that helps)

Answer 8

Killing : To end the life of anything
Murdering : To kill mercilessly with or w/out motive
Assassinating : to kill premeditatedly and treacherously a politically prominent person suddenly or secretively
Executing : To put to death according to the laws of the land

Whts the deal hre man?? So many violent definitions needed :?

Answer 9

Murder; to take a life on purpose.
Killing; The person is dead, for what ever reason.
Assassinating: the murder of a person by sneak attack
Executing; To cause torture before killing

Answer 10

There is none. Only that some kill people because they have the power and can get away with it, but some are really mass murderers.