Editing 2012 (section)

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* January 8 - [[Edward Muscare]]
* January 11 - [[Katherine Dufresne]]
* February 1 - [[Gerlando Alberti]]
* February 5 - [[Josh Powell]]
* March 22 - [[Mohammed Merah]]
* May 2 - [[J. T. Ready]]
* May 26 - [[Rudy Eugene]]
* June 12 - [[Henry Hill]]
* June 30 - [[Yitzhak Shamir]]
* July 9 - [[Muhammad Shabbir]]
* August 5 - [[Wade Michael Page]]
* August 20 - [[Meles Zanawi]]
* September 25 - [[Trevor Hardy]]
* October 7 - [[Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano]]
* November 17 - [[Bal Thackeray]]
* November 21 - [[Ajmal Kasab]]
* December 1 - [[Jovan Belcher]]
* December 2 - [[Israel Keyes]]
* December 14 - [[Adam Lanza]]
* December 29 - [[Ruth Ann Steinhagen]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* January 9 - Paul Quandt
* February 5 - Charles & Braden Powell
* February 26 - Trayvon Martin
*March 19 - Mark, Lawton and Rhonda Sesler
* May 25 - [[Luka Magnotta|Jun Lin]]
* July 6 - Skylar Neese
*July 10 - Amara and Sophie Schaffhausen
* August 10 - Melanie Davis
* September 11 - J. Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith
* September 12 - Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty
*September 12 -  Audrie Pott
*October 10 - Amanda Todd
*December 14 - Nancy Lanza and the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting