Oliver Cromwell, for instance (8)

I believe the answer is:

regicide

(Other definitions for regicide that I've seen before include "doing away with top man" , "What Macbeth did" , "murder of top man" , "Murder of a king" , "killing of man at the top" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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