UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York earlier this month, and there has been some celebration on social media of the suspected killer.
If you kill someone in self defensive, its called a homicide. This was a homicide (or an execution, which is a type of homicide that is approved by society). It was not a murder.
Some murders are self defence.
No, murder is a crime.
If you kill someone in self defensive, its called a homicide. This was a homicide (or an execution, which is a type of homicide that is approved by society). It was not a murder.
I call this “societal self defense”.
No killing in self-defense is murder.