Parricide

• The act of killing one's father, or less commonly one's mother or some other close relative.
• The act of killing a person who stands in a relationship resembling that of a father
• A person who commits such an act
• A related adjective

  Historical cases

• Tullia the Younger, along with her husband, arranged the murder and overthrow of her father, securing the throne for her husband.
• Lucius Hostius reportedly was the first patricide in Rome, sometime after the Second Punic War.
• Mary Blandy poisoned her father, Francis Blandy, with arsenic in England in 1751.
• Lizzie Borden was an American woman accused and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother.
• Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted in 1994 for the 1989 shotgun murders of their wealthy parents, entertainment executive José Menéndez and his wife Mary.
• The Criminal Code of Japan once determined that patricide brought capital punishment or life imprisonment. However, the law was abolished because of the trial of the Tochigi patricide case in which a woman killed her father in 1968 after she was sexually abused by him and bore their children.

  Legal definition in Roman times

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