Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth

Soviet socialist revolutionary and political theoretician Leon Trotsky was stabbed to death with a ice axe by one of Josef Stalin’s spies, the Spaniard Ramón Mercarder in Coyoacán, Mexico City, 1940.

Assassination is the murder of an important or popular person, usually, a political leader, like the head of a country or of a political party. Assassinations are usually done for political reasons or for payment. A person who assassinates someone is called an assassin.