Murder or Assassination?

Question

What's the difference?

Answer 1

Assassination is the murder of a public figure. An added distinction, among assassination and other forms of killing is that the assassin has an ideological or political motivation, though many assassins (especially those not part of an organisation) also demonstrate insanity; other motivations are money (contract killing), revenge, or a military operation.

The assassination euphemism targeted killing (extrajudicial execution) also is used for government-sanctioned killing of opponents. 'Assassination' itself, along with terms such as 'terrorist' and 'freedom fighter', may in this context be considered a loaded term, as it implies an act where the proponents of such killings may consider them justified or even necessary.

Murder is the unlawful killing of a human person with malice aforethought. Murder is generally distinguished from other forms of homicide by the elements of malice aforethought and the lack of lawful justification. All jurisdictions, ancient and modern, consider it a most serious crime.

Answer 2

You can be charged with murder but not with assassination.
Murder is a legal definition of the deliberate and unlawful taking of someone's life. The exact definition varies throughout the word and different categories of murder exist in some legal systems.
Assassination is the killing of a person, usually a prominent or politically important person, and usually for a political means.
An assassination within a state can be regarded as a murder but outside that state, especially by the perpetrators state, it may be seen to be justifiable.

Answer 3

Murder is the killing of an innocent person. Assassination is a murder that is used to get the attention of a particular party. Not all people who are assassinated are innocent though.

Answer 4

Assassination is necessary to disable a fanatic,murder on the other hand could be a innocent person.

Answer 5

Murder,
The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice.

The act of murder is unique to humanity. While animals kill outside of their own species for food, and may fight, wound, or very occasionally kill within species for territory, it is only within mankind that one person — out of malice or rage, for gain or revenge — takes another person's life by violent means.

Assassination
The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
Assassination, "is the intentional killing of a specified victim or group of victims, perpetrated for a reason related to his (her, their) public prominence and undertaken with a political purpose in view." It is usually an answer to an alleged political crime, the latter being generally defined as an offense by which the criminal betrays his allegiance to principles or persons that bind the political order, or by which the criminal challenges or hinders the political authority.

Answer 6

Assassination is political murder. It derives its name from a group of trained killers many centuries ago who were called "Hashishin" because of their use of Marijuana.

Answer 7

I always thought assassination was when a famous person gets killed but no!!! lol

Assassination i think is where someone hires someone to kill a person

murder is when someone kills someone...
but both mean the same thing pretty much...
Also assassination is more fun to say!!!

Answer 8

Politics.

Answer 9

Assassination is when a person is hired by anouther person to do away with someone else. Murder is when you kill someone youre self face to face.

Answer 10

Assassins are usually on a crusade to kill political or religious figures.
Both kill with intent.