#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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