Murder

Murder is criminal offence involving the death of one or more individuals.

Murdering a being can result in numerous penalties, common ones are life imprisonment and execution. Killing beings on a battlefield does not usually count as a murder. A killing that classifies as murder usually means it was a targeted attack on a single individual. It is described as one of the most serious crimes in the Universe. Assassination is a murder which is ordered by a superior and tasked to an assassin.

It can be contrasted with genocide, which involves the murder of entire populations.

Examples of murder

• Sarah Jane Smith declared Styre a murderer after he killed Roth as he ran away. (DW: The Sontaran Experiment)
• The Master has murdered many people. His victims include Tegan Jovanka's Aunt Vanessa and a policeman when they found his TARDIS. (DW: Logopolis) Another of the Master's victims was Thomas Milligan, whom he murdered with his laser screwdriver. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)
• George Cranleigh murdered several servants at Cranleigh Hall. The Doctor was blamed for these murders. (DW: Black Orchid)
• Shockeye of the Quawncing Grig murdered Oscar Botcherby for asking him for money. (DW: The Two Doctors)
• The Doctor accused Harriet Jones of mass murder. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
• Lucy Saxon murdered the Master with a gun. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)
• Professor Peach and Roger Curbishley were two of the murders at Eddison Manor. They were murded by Reverend Arnold Golightly who was actually a Vespiform. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
• River Song murdered a man who was "a hero to many" and the "greatest man [she] had ever known". The man she killed was loosely implied to be the Doctor. (DW: Flesh and Stone)