Does any political office count?
What about school board or a principal?
What about a chess champion?
What if you’re the prime witness to a huge crime?
Military leaders? Chief of police?
Youtubers, podcasters?
CEO? Small bussiness owner? Manager of a store?
Does popularity matter, or is it only importance?
And lets say the leader of a country got killed, but its by their relative for, say, getting bulled as a kid, and the movive has nothing to do with their position of power? Does that count as an “assassination”?
For me, it’s on the professional execution of the job. Murder sounds more unhinged to me, more passionate, usually not as premeditated or carried over by a professional. Homicide is the technical term for both.