Murder

1. Murder is a type of criminal homicide where that killer intended on killing the victim and may have even planned it out beforehand. Homicide is a killing that just happens, it can be classified under self defense, there is not pre-meditation to it.

Murder has four categories: 1) First Degree murder 2) Second Degree murder 3) Third Degree or in other cases voluntary manslaughter 4) Involuntary Manslaughter

Homicide has a couple categories including criminal, justifiable, or excusable. Criminal is where the crime is severe and so are the consequences. Justifiable and excusable is where someone was using self defense or has a mental illness and didn't understand what they were doing.

2. A 14 year old boy was charged with murder when they found his half-sister dead. He had tied her up by the neck with a rope that was used for a tire swing in the past so it wasn't tied like a noose but in a figure 8 pattern. The authorities are saying that this was no accident because of the hanging of the girl and so the boy has been charged with murder in juvenile court and he has to wait on his court appearance to see if he will be tried as an adult. The victim is portrayed as an innocent 9 year old little girl and the victim is portrayed as someone who knew what he was doing and that he meant to kill her. The media portrayed the incident as a little gruesome I would say because they talk about how the little girl's feet were actually touching the ground and how they children were playing in the yard before the terrible act happened.

3. One example of a movie with murder in it is American History X. This movie talks a lot about gang violence and hate crimes, but in the end, there are a couple murders that take place. They are murders because the characters intended on killing them. Also, in one of the murders, they boy had planned out to kill the other teenager because he brought a gun to school and shot him in the bathroom and he had been waiting in there for him, too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/

Another movie example is Homicide: The Movie. The weird thing about this movie is that I am pretty sure the "homicide" is a murder. The reason is because the "homicide" happens when the leading candidate for Mayor walks up to the podium to do a speech, he is shot. Now, this type of shooting doesn't happen randomly, it is something that is thought about for a while. Someone has to think about all the obstacles to get  through, where the person is going to stand, the type of security there will be, etc to be able to execute this thing. So in my mind, this should be renamed to Murder: The Movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0226771/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl