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Homicide

This article is about homicide, the killing of a human being. There is another article about the television series .

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Homicide is the killing of another human being by one or more others. Legally homicide is classified as either justifiable homicide (which is not a crime), or the following crimes:

• murder,
• manslaughter, or
• (in many jurisdictions) negligent homicide.

Defenses against homicide, where the identity of the killer is not in dispute, include insanity and self-defense. Defense of property is not per se a defense against homicide, although a homicide where self-defense became necessary as a result of undertaking defense of property may be justifiable homicide.

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