According to Merriam-Webster, a justification is an acceptable reason for doing something: something that justifies an action. Assassinations are events that people choose to justify, although most pacifists would say an assassination is murder. Murder is never acceptable in their eyes, and should never be justified. People have their own opinions when it comes to the deaths of those of higher authority and power. Influential figures in history such as presidents, and those of political power, are just a few targets of people who detest their government. People may try and justify their possible assassinations due to hatred toward them, without a firm foundation of evidence supporting their justification. The assassination of Archduke Franz