Posted: 12/22/2014 12:42:23 PM EDT
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I noticed that the headlines on some new orgs, say that the 2 policemen in NY were "executed, I also remember when ISIS was beheaded people the news would also say "executing"
I thought executions were a form of punishment? shouldn't they be using other words like "murder"? |
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Execute means to carry out a planned action. An execution is that action.
It came to mean killing, because people have been sentenced to death since time immemorial and the people pronouncing the sentence rarely carried it out themselves. They had someone else execute the sentence. See? That sounds much more temperate than "Hey, I need you to kill that guy." Now, if you'll excuse me, I must execute a water closet maneuver. ETA: Yes, I agree, calling the killing of those two officers an execution does sanitize the act of some of it's atrocity. |
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Don't you have to be important or famous to be assassinated? Kinda like the difference between crazy and eccentric. Quoted:
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I would use murdered or assassinated. Don't you have to be important or famous to be assassinated? Kinda like the difference between crazy and eccentric. I think it qualifies. assassinated as·sas·si·nate (?-sas'?-nat') tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. To destroy or injure treacherously: assassinate a rival's character. as·sas'si·na'tion n. as·sas'si·na'tive adj. as·sas'si·na'tor n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved |
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I would use murdered or assassinated. Don't you have to be important or famous to be assassinated? Kinda like the difference between crazy and eccentric. This should help shed some light on it: 
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I think it qualifies. assassinated as·sas·si·nate (?-sas'?-nat') tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. To destroy or injure treacherously: assassinate a rival's character. as·sas'si·na'tion n. as·sas'si·na'tive adj. as·sas'si·na'tor n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved Quoted:
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I would use murdered or assassinated. Don't you have to be important or famous to be assassinated? Kinda like the difference between crazy and eccentric. I think it qualifies. assassinated as·sas·si·nate (?-sas'?-nat') tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. To destroy or injure treacherously: assassinate a rival's character. as·sas'si·na'tion n. as·sas'si·na'tive adj. as·sas'si·na'tor n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved I have a problem with "To murder". Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by partisans but was it "murder"? Also, what about the plot to assassinate Hitler? On the other hand, the assassination of JFK and those two officers WAS murder. |
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I would use murdered or assassinated. Don't you have to be important or famous to be assassinated? Kinda like the difference between crazy and eccentric. This should help shed some light on it:  http://youtu.be/xte-aTS1_6k |
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I would use murdered or assassinated. Don't you have to be important or famous to be assassinated? Kinda like the difference between crazy and eccentric. I think it qualifies. assassinated as·sas·si·nate (?-sas'?-nat') tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. To destroy or injure treacherously: assassinate a rival's character. as·sas'si·na'tion n. as·sas'si·na'tive adj. as·sas'si·na'tor n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved I have a problem with "To murder". Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by partisans but was it "murder"? Also, what about the plot to assassinate Hitler? On the other hand, the assassination of JFK and those two officers WAS murder. murder [mur-der] noun 1. Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder) 2. Slang. something extremely difficult or perilous: That final exam was murder! 3. a group or flock of crows. Dictionary.com |
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I thought they were tried, in the court of the black public opinion and then sentenced by the mobs
marching in the street chanting "what do we want...dead cops". Well you got em. You know this should really improve the "racial" profiling in NY city. If I'm a cop and being approached by a black person, it's going to be difficult to not draw my weapon and be prepared. |