Uxoricide: Murder of 'wife', 'girlfriend' a concern

This act, called by a rarely heard or used word in this country, is universally known as uxoricide, which according to Wikipedia, takes root from the Latin word 'uxor' meaning 'wife' formed in combination with '-cide' (to cut or to kill), meaning a person or substance that kills.

Uxoricide, or so-called passion killing as commonly referred to locally, has grown to be a concern. The degree to which recorded cases of women dying at the hands of their intimate partner is at a much higher rate when compared to mariticide, the killing of a husband or boyfriend by their intimate partner. Such murders can send a bone-chilling effect, to say the least.