Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country is a 2023 book by journalist Patricia Evangelista, published by Random House.

The book documents the thousands of Filipinos killed by extrajudicial death squads and vigilantes during the administration of the president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte.

The book documents some of the extrajudicial killings of Philippine citizens that occurred during the presidential tenure of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte from 2016 to 2022, with many killings being conducted by death squads which were emboldened by the president.

Duterte had admittedly employed death squads (Davao Death Squad) to kill low level criminals, drug dealers, and drug users during his more than two-decade tenure as mayor of Davao City.

The title comes from a quote from a perpetrator describing his actions as making his neighborhood safer for his children by killing suspected criminals: "I'm not all bad.