#slayer__killer someone who causes the death of a person or animal
supertype: person__individual__someone__somebody__mortal__human__human_being__humanbeing__soul a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
subtype: public_executioner__executioner an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
subtype: electrocutioner an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person
subtype: hangman an executioner who hangs the condemned person
subtype: headsman__headman an executioner who beheads the condemned person
subtype: exterminator__terminator__eradicator someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
subtype: garroter__garrotter__strangler__throttler__choker someone who kills by strangling
subtype: murderer__liquidator__manslayer a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
subtype: assassin__assassinator__bravo a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors"
instance: John_Wilkes_Booth__Booth Lee_Harvey_Oswald__Oswald
subtype: butcher a brutal indiscriminate murderer
subtype: cutthroat someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
subtype: fratricide.murderer a person who murders their brother or sister
subtype: gunslinger__gunman__hired_gun__hiredgun__gun__triggerman__hit_man__hitman__torpedo__shooter a professional killer who uses a gun
subtype: hatchet_man__hatchetman__iceman a professional killer
subtype: infanticide.murderer a person who murders an infant
subtype: murderess__murderes a woman murderer
subtype: parricide.murderer someone who kills his or her parent
subtype: matricide.parricide a person who murders their mother
subtype: patricide.parricide a person who murders their father
subtype: ripper a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the ripper was probably a madman"
subtype: serial_killer__serial_murderer someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
instance: Jack_the_Ripper
subtype: poisoner someone who kills with poison
subtype: regicide.slayer someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
subtype: suicide__felo-de-se a person who kills himself intentionally
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