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  • Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.111, University of Georgia Press