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homicide

noun as in killing

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Once much safer, Ecuador now has one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America and many would like to give Noboa freer rein.

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Police deemed the case a lawful self-defense homicide—even though they had no one claiming they killed Fedrick in self-defense.

The Wall Street Journal analyzed the number of justifiable homicides reported by police agencies that consistently filed monthly crime data to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System from 2019 to 2024.

Neither of those things is likely to change with the arrival of US forces, nor will the fact that Ecuador now has Latin America's highest homicide rate.

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When Mr. Calderón was leaving office, the homicide rate was falling.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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