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What is the difference between an assassination and a murder?

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so then aren't they really the same thing. a premeditated murder is a targeted murder. high profile or not, it is still the taking of a persons life, right? murder is murder, right?

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  1. Usually an assassination involves a politically prominent person.


  2. if you are famous  its an assassination--  if your just a working slob like me, its murder. there are few people that would like to kill me outright..  but they have to ask/answer themselves a very important question...  is 25 to life worth punching west of encino's ticket?..  I think not!!!

  3. murder -  To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully

    assassination - murder of a public figure by surprise attack

  4. murder is taking someone's life

    assassination is the targeting killing of someone

  5. murder is killing someone

    assassination is an ordered killing of someone by someone

    assassination is under murder

  6. Murder is a killing of one human to another, assassination is murder, but murder is not assassination

    assassination is a hired kill of another human, keyword HIRED, so the "assassin" *hint hint* is being payed for the kill.

  7. "Assassination is the targeted killing of a high-profile person" thats what wikipedia says.

    "Murder is the unlawful killing of a human person with malice aforethought"

    hope that helps.

  8. An assassination is a special form of murder:  Murder of a public figure by surprise attack.

  9. Politics.

  10. Assasination is a term used when someone very important to the country or society is killed .  An assasination is something which is pre-planned. murder is something which is used for when someone is killed in a fit of rage.

  11. The real difference between an assassination and a murder is the spelling!

  12. A MURDER IS AN ACT OF KILLING THAT CAN BE UNINTENDED.ASSASSINATION IS THE ACT OF PLANING INTELLIGENTLY AND CARRYING OUT THE ACT OF KILLING.ASSASSINATION IS USUALLY RELATED TO POLITICS AND CAN SOMETIMES COST HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY.

  13. Assassination sometimes comes with a day off. Murder is a normal thing to do.

  14. assination is killing a political figure
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