HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds
of homocide:
felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great
difference to the person
slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for
advantage of the lawyers.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), "The Devil's Dictionary", 1911