A report issued by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime in July 2019 documented that nearly 464,000 people around the world were killed in homicides in 2017, a number significantly in excess of the 89,000 killed in armed conflicts during the same period. Cornell University Law School defines homicide as the act of one human killing another. a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no intent to cause harm. Homicide includes murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, killing in justified war or as a war crime, euthanasia which is assisted suicide, and capital punishment. The circumstances of the death is decisive. Homicides are treated differently in human societies. Some homicides are considered crimes, while others are justified by the legal system.
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