Assassination

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Assassination is a historical legal term and describes the willful killing of a person carried out in a secret, devious manner, also through indirect perpetration .

In Austria assassination was up to the criminal law reform of 1 January 1975 in accordance with § 135 of the Criminal Code defined as murder, "which is done by poison or otherwise insidious way." It should be noted that as murder under Austrian criminal law any intentional killing (with the exception of Manslaughter according to § 76 StGB) is understood in contrast in particular to the definition of murder according to German criminal law .

In international criminal law , a " murderous murder " is the killing of the opponent in an armed conflict in violation of the prohibition of perfidy in international humanitarian law .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ German legal dictionary: Dictionary of the older German legal language, Vol. IX, Sp. 603–604.
  2. ^ Austrian Criminal Code valid until December 31, 1974