Assassination

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Murder committed for hire, without provocation or cause of resentment given to the murderer by the person upon whom the crime is committed. Ersk. Inst. bk. 4, tit. 4, note 45. A murder committed treacherously, with advantage of time, place, or other circumstances. In modern usage, at least, it is not a technical term of the law of homicide.

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Murder committed for hire, without provocation or cause of resentment given to the murderer by the person upon whom the crime is committed. Ersk. Inst. bk. 4, tit. 4, note 45. A murder committed treacherously, with advantage of time, place, or other circumstances. In modern usage, at least, it is not a technical term of the law of homicide.

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This definition of Assassination is based on The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary. This entry needs to be proofread.

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See Also

Homicide: Behavioral Aspects; Homicide: Legal Aspects; Terrorism; Violence.

Assassination Weapons, Mechanical

Biochemical Assassination Weapons

CIA (United States Central Intelligence Agency)

Mossad

Soviet Union (USSR), Intelligence and Security

Death System; Homicide, Definitions and Classifications of; Homicide, Epidemiology of; Revolutionaries and “Death for the Cause!”; Terrorism

Lincoln, Abraham, “Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy” (In Focus).

Further Reading (Books)

Ben-Yehuda, Nachman. Political Assassinations by Jews. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Clarke, James W. American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Douglas, John, and Olshaker, Mark. The Anatomy of Motive. New York: Scribners, 1999.

Ellis, Albert, and Gullo, John M. Murder and Assassination. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1971.

Franzius, Enno. History of the Order of Assassins. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969.

Gross, Feliks. Violence in Politics: Terror and Political Assassination in Eastern Europe and Russia. Hague: Mouton, 1972.

Harris, Irving D. “Assassins.” In Violence: Perspectives on Murder and Aggression. Edited by Irwin L. Kutash, Samuel B. Kutash, Louis B. Schesinger, and others. Foreword by Alexander Wolf. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1978. Pages 198-218.

Havens, Murray Clark; Leiden, Carl; and Schmitt, Karl M. The Politics of Assassination. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970.

Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Kirkham, James F.; Levy, Sheldon G.; and Crotty, William J. Assassination and Political Violence: A Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Reprint, with an introduction by Harrison E. Salisbury. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.

Kittrie, Nicholas N. “A New Look at Political Offenses and Terrorism.” In International Terrorism in the Contemporary World. Edited by Marius H. Livingston, with Lee Bruce Kress and Marie G. Wanek. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pages 354-375.

Law Commission. Codification of the Criminal Law: Treason, Sedition, and Allied Offenses. Working Paper No. 72. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1977.

Robins, Robert S., and Post, Jerrold M. Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.

Smith, Brent L. Terrorism in America: Pipe Bombs and Pipe Dreams. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Bak, Richard. The Day Lincoln was Shot: An Illustrated Chronicle. Dallas, TX: Taylor, 1998.

Barkan, Steven E. Criminology: A Sociological Understanding. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Bruce, George. The Stranglers: The Cult of Th
uggee and Its Overthrow in British India. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

Bresler, Fenton. Who Killed John Lennon? New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Cavendish, Marshall. Assassinations: The Murders That Changed History. London: Marshall Cavendish, 1975.

Gardner, Joseph L. Departing Glory: Theodore Roosevelt as Ex-President. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973.

Lesberg, Sandy. Assassination in Our Time. New York: Peebles Press International, 1976.

McConnell, Brian. The History of Assassination. Nashville: Aurora, 1970.

McKinley, James. Assassinations in America. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.

Nash, Jay Robert. Bloodletters and Badmen. New York: M. Evans and Co., 1973.

Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.

Roy, Parama. “Discovering India, Imagining Thuggee.” The Yale Journal of Criticism 9 (1996):121-143.

Strober, Deborah H., and Gergald S. Strober. Reagan: The Man and His Presidency. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Further Reading (Articles)

Political Assassination; Liberalism ‘Shattered’ over JFK, The Washington Times (Washington, DC); August 14, 2007; Miller, Elizabeth

Assassination, Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity; January 1, 2005

Assassination: a primer. (Central Intelligence Agency training manual), Harper’s Magazine; August 1, 1997

Rabin Assassination Video Resurfaces After 10-Year Absence., Israel Faxx; November 3, 2005

The unpredictable consequences of assassination policies., The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon); March 11, 2008

The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence/The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft, The Journal of Southern History; February 1, 2011; Hansen, Stephen L

Syria confirms assassination of military officer. Most prevalent theory is killing was act of revenge by country’s military intelligence head, Jerusalem Post; August 7, 2008; BRENDA GAZZAR and AP

Targeting Osama Bin Laden: Examining the Legality of Assassination as a Tool of U.S. Foreign Policy, Duke Law Journal; December 1, 2005; Wachtel, Howard A.

Global Research: US Hatches Assassination Plots to Blame Enemies, FARS News Agency; April 28, 2013

Leaders United in Condemnation of Lakkis Assassination, The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon); December 5, 2013

Money Behind JFK Assassination, Speaker Says, Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; November 11, 2012; Harvath, Les

Attack on Saddam instigates debate over assassination, Oakland Tribune; March 21, 2003; Peter S. Canellos

HISTORIAN MICHAEL KURTZ PENS NEW BOOK ON DUELING THEORIES SURROUNDING JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; November 10, 2006

Political Assassination Events as a Cross-Cultural Form of Alternative Justice, International Journal of Comparative Sociology; June 1, 1997; Ben-Yehuda, Nachman

Cabinet under Fire after Harb Assassination Bid, The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon); July 6, 201

LF slams Bassil over assassination slur., The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon); April 24, 2012

Assassination debate rages as world leaders talk of revenge, The Scotsman; September 22, 2001; Tom Bower

ASSASSINATION OF FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LUIS DONALDO COLOSIO REMAINS UNSOLVED, SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico; April 5, 1995

TARGETED STRIKE REKINDLES ASSASSINATION DEBATE, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); March 21, 2003; Peter S. Canellos, Globe Staff

FBI, CIA REFUSE TO RELEASE DATA ON JFK ASSASSINATION, The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); February 13, 1992; By JOHN DIAMOND – Associated Press


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