An axe murder is a murder in which the victim was struck and killed by an axe or hatchet.
According to legend, a man called Lalli killed Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of Lake Köyliö in 1156. The murder of St. Henry by Lalli, painting by Karl Anders Ekman (1854).
A collection of old Australian axes and other cutting tools
Lizzie Borden, about 1889
Police photo of Karl Denke after his suicide by hanging on 22 December 1924 (aged 64)
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of malice, such as in the case of voluntary manslaughter brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness.
Jereboam O. Beauchamp killing Solomon P. Sharp, an example of a murder.
Aaron Alexis holding a shotgun during his rampage
A group of Thugs strangling a traveller on a highway in the early 19th century
The Lake Bodom murders in Espoo, Finland is the most famous unsolved homicide case in Finnish criminal history. The tent is investigated immediately after the murders in 1960.
