https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_politicians
Assailant had lost a fistfight with McCook over financing the Dakota Southern Railroad; he returned with a pistol, publicly humiliated by his loss. [32] William McKinley. Republican. 1901 ( details ) President of the United States. Buffalo, New York (at Pan-American Exposition ) gunshot. Leon Czolgosz.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/world/americas/mexico-election-candidates-killed.html
A sharp increase in violence during elections is not unusual in Mexico. In the last election cycle, in 2021, when voters across the country cast ballots for more than 19,900 local posts, at least

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/briefing/right-wing-mass-shootings.html
May 17, 2022. Follow our live coverage of the Buffalo mass shooting. Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists. Of these

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-wave-political-murders-eats-away-democracy-2024-05-24/
In Mexico, a wave of political murders eats away at democracy. [1/6]A member of the National Guard stands guard at a crime scene where two people were shot in Acapulco, Mexico, May 7, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-violence/
The Nov. 5 killing of Anthony King was among 213 cases of political violence identified by Reuters since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by supporters of former President Donald Trump on the U.S. Capitol.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-wave-political-murders-ahead-elections-eats-away-democracy-rcna153964
More political candidates — six — have been killed in the state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, than in any other in Mexico. From September to May, across Mexico, 34 candidates or

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/30/americas/mexico-political-killings-intl/index.html
Some parts of the campaign trail in Mexico look like anywhere else - rallies, bumper stickers, candidates making lofty promises. Other parts - the threats, the assaults, the murders - are

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1092807827/dead-end-a-new-jersey-political-murder-mystery
Podcasts >; True Crime >; Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery From WNYC Radio. New Jersey politics is not for the faint of heart. But the brutal killing of John and Joyce Sheridan, a

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/political-assassination-wisconsin-judge/661192/
But the Friday murder of a retired judge in Wisconsin is ominous enough to give some pause. Although little is known so far, authorities say they believe that the killing was politically motivated

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/movies/the-art-of-political-murder-review.html
The murder in "The Art of the Political Murder," a documentary based on the book of the same title by Francisco Goldman, is the killing of Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera in Guatemala in 1998

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-causes-and-impact-of-political-assassinations/
Political assassinations have been part of social reality since the emergence of communal social frameworks, as the leaders of tribes, villages, and other types of communities constantly needed to defend their privileged status. In the ancient world assassination featured prominently in the rise and fall of some of the greatest empires. While many people are … Continued

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-candidate-assassinations-hit-grim-record-ahead-sundays-election-2024-06-01/
Mexico's election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered on Friday at a political rally, taking the number of

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/greg-abbott-daniel-perry-pardon-gun-violence/673727/
00:00. 06:59. Listen to more stories on hark. In July 2020, at the height of protests over the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, Daniel Perry considered killing someone. "I might have

https://www.history.com/news/political-assassinations-germany-weimar-republic
Between 1918 and 1922, Organization Consul and other right-wing paramilitary groups committed at least 354 political murders. After the ban, Organization Consul, and others like it, simply renamed

https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/article/90/4/508/118640/The-Boundaries-of-DemocracyTransnational-Political
The Boundaries of Democracy. : Transnational Political Murders in the Reagan Era. Pacific Historical Review (2021) 90 (4): 508-536. This article examines the aftermaths of four murders: those of anti-Ferdinand Marcos activists Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, and Kuomintang critics Chen Wen-Chen and Henry Liu.

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2020
In 2020, domestic extremists killed at least 17 people in the United States, in 15 separate incidents. This represents a significant decrease from the 45 extremist-related murders documented in 2019 and the 54 murders of 2018; in fact, it is the lowest yearly total in ADL statistics since 2004, which saw only 14 extremist-related murders.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/31/violent-crime-is-a-key-midterm-voting-issue-but-what-does-the-data-say/
Political candidates around the United States have released thousands of ads focusing on violent crime this year, and most registered voters see the issue as very important in the Nov. 8 midterm elections. But official statistics from the federal government paint a complicated picture when it comes to recent changes in the U.S. violent crime rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Political_Murder
The Art of Political Murder is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Paul Taylor, based on the book of the same name by Francisco Goldman.It follows the murder of Juan José Gerardi Conedera, a human rights activist who was murdered after presenting a damaging report of atrocities committed during the Guatemalan Civil War. George Clooney and Grant Heslov serve as executive producers

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/politics/what-matters-crime-wave/index.html
The political divide on crime will grow as Biden and Democrats focus on guns, which are involved in most murders, as the root of the problem, and Republicans blame liberal mayors and governors and

https://www.yahoo.com/news/all-25-us-extremism-related-murders-last-year-were-linked-to-right-wing-extremists-212259479.html
The report found that right-wing extremists had committed 335 domestic extremist-related murders over the past 10 years, accounting for 73% of all such murders. That represents 76% of the total

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022
Absent these mass killings, there would have been only 10 extremist-related deaths in 2022. Most extremist-related killing incidents involve only a single victim, but in recent years a small number of extremist mass killers have caused a disproportionate number of the deaths. Almost all the killings in 2022 (93%) were committed with firearms.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/political-murder-tyrannicide-terrorism
Abstract. Political murder as defined in this book ranges from the narrowly targeted assassination to random killings designed to intimidate political opponents. Assassination encompasses tyrannicide, which consists of the killing of illegitimate, capricious, or impious rulers. The book's principal focus is assassinations.

https://www.startribune.com/leonard-peltier-serving-life-term-for-murder-of-two-fbi-agents-in-1975-appeals-for-parole/600373593/
Leonard Peltier is serving a pair of life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. ... Upheld as a political prisoner among

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/upshot/murders-2020-election-debate.html
Murder is rising pretty much everywhere, regardless of a mayor's political party. Yana Paskova for The New York Times. The F.B.I. recently released information on crime in 2020 through June

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/americas/chiapas-mexico-killings-campaign-event/index.html
A mayoral candidate was among the six people killed by gunfire at a political campaign event in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Thursday, according to the Institute of Elections and

https://apnews.com/article/paul-pelosi-hammer-attack-depape-state-trial-1d4d2c95d096a46a1184eca2f12eebe8
Judge dismisses attempted murder and other charges in state case against Paul Pelosi's attacker. FILE - In this image taken from San Francisco Police Department body-camera video, the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, right, fights for control of a hammer with his assailant David DePape during a brutal attack in

https://www.newsweek.com/crime-trends-will-shape-voters-2024which-party-will-tell-better-tale-1810042
New York has been a fixture in conversations around national crime as Mayor Eric Adams focused a major part of his 2021 campaign on making the city safer. Looking at crime trends in the city, as

https://abcnews.go.com/US/rex-heuermann-charged-2-long-island-murders-investigators/story?id=110921675
Accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann appears for an arraignment hearing where he was charged with two additional murders before Judge Timothy Mazzei in Suffolk County Superior Court in

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
About eight-in-ten U.S. murders in 2021 - 20,958 out of 26,031, or 81% - involved a firearm. That marked the highest percentage since at least 1968, the earliest year for which the CDC has online records. More than half of all suicides in 2021 - 26,328 out of 48,183, or 55% - also involved a gun, the highest percentage since 2001.

https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/mp-azim-murder-political-feud-now-comes-focus-3635521
Not only gold smuggling, political rivalry may have also been a key reason behind the murder of Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, investigators have said. Two top leaders of Jhenaidah Awami