If a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way?

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• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While the other answers are funny, the real answer nowadays is either “murder” or “assassination”. There is not really a more specific word for it.

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• A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Justice

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• udon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Disenshittification

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• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cathartic

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• tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ‘lone gunman’

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• celeste@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Magnicide, maybe?

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• j4k3@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The name regicide has had millennia to develop, while I think it is likely that this novel method of obfuscating the succession crisis has not had similar time or cause for neologization.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Relief.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  JFK’ed

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• Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depending on the subject, I think it would be called catharsis.

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