At what point does a murder become an assassination

Question

How important do you have to be to be assassinated instead of murdered?

Answer 1

this may be a shock to you ... but words do have meaning, and definitions

as·sas·si·nate  [uh-sas-uh-neyt]

–verb (used with object), -nat·ed, -nat·ing.

1. to kill suddenly or secretively, esp. a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.

2. to destroy or harm treacherously and viciously: to assassinate a person's character.

Answer 2

I worry a lot about assassination, but my heavy's see to my safety!

Answer 3

When the murder is the result of well known actions.

Answer 4

There is no border - you are usually only 'assassinated' if you are killed for a political reason (JFK,LINCON, MLK, Malcom X etc).