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Parricide ((ラテン語:parricida), killer of parents or another close relative) is defined as: * The act of killing one's father (patricide),〔Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd. ed.: parricide: ... killing a near relative (now usually a father)〕 or less usually mother (matricide) or other close relative, but usually not children (infanticide). * The act of killing a person (such as the ruler of one's country) who stands in a relationship resembling that of a father〔Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd. ed.: parricide: ... fig.: the action or crime of killing the ruler of or betraying one's country〕 * A person who commits such an act〔Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd. ed.: parricide 1: A person who kills a near relative; parricide 2: The action or crime of killing a near relative〕 * A related adjective ("parricide treason", "parricide brothers")〔examples from Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd. ed.〕 ==Historical cases== * Tullia, along with her husband, arranged the murder and overthrow of her father, securing the throne for her husband. * Lucius Hostius reportedly was the first patricide in Rome, sometime after the Second Punic War. * Mary Blandy (1720–1752) poisoned her father, Francis Blandy, with arsenic in England in 1751. * Lizzie Borden (1860–1927) was an American woman accused and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother. * The Criminal Code of Japan once determined that patricide brought capital punishment or life imprisonment. However, the law was abolished because of the trial of the Tochigi patricide case in which a woman killed her father in 1968 after she was sexually abused by him and bore their children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「parricide」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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