Assassination
… political reasons.” Alternatively, assassination may be defined as “the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons.”
An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety (that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition), from the wish to …