Regardless, I wonder if there's a lot of men is the key factor here. Even if a reasonable fraction of a percent of the population isn't deterred by previous ass

Regardless, I wonder if there's a lot of men is the key factor here. Even if a reasonable fraction of a percent of the population isn't deterred by previous assassinations for a population in the millions, that's still a lot of replacements. The replacement rate of that subset of the population is almost certainly higher than the assassination rate.