diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4e57679d1..45a92ed76 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ PROGS       := \
   head \
 
 UNIX_PROGS := \
+  kill \
   logname \
   users \
   whoami \
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cf06b8650..f6addf164 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ To do
 - hostid
 - install
 - join
-- kill
 - lbracket
 - libstdbuf
 - link
diff --git a/common/util.rs b/common/util.rs
index 9bd9bb5ae..05542598e 100644
--- a/common/util.rs
+++ b/common/util.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #[macro_export]
 macro_rules! show_error(
     ($exitcode:expr, $($args:expr),+) => ({
-        ::std::os::set_exit_status($exitcode);
+        ::std::os::set_exit_status($exitcode as int);
         safe_write!(&mut ::std::io::stderr(), "{}: error: ", ::NAME);
         safe_writeln!(&mut ::std::io::stderr(), $($args),+);
     })
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ macro_rules! show_warning(
 macro_rules! crash(
     ($exitcode:expr, $($args:expr),+) => ({
         show_error!($exitcode, $($args),+);
+        unsafe { ::std::libc::exit($exitcode as ::std::libc::c_int); }
+    })
+)
+
+
+#[macro_export]
+macro_rules! exit(
+    ($exitcode:expr) => ({
         unsafe { ::std::libc::exit($exitcode); }
     })
 )
diff --git a/kill/kill.rs b/kill/kill.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f44f0b285
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kill/kill.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+#![crate_id(name="kill", vers="0.0.1", author="Maciej Dziardziel")]
+#![feature(macro_rules)]
+#![feature(phase)]
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of the uutils coreutils package.
+ *
+ * (c) Maciej Dziardziel <fiedzia@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE file
+ * that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+
+extern crate getopts;
+extern crate collections;
+extern crate serialize;
+
+#[phase(syntax, link)] extern crate log;
+
+use std::os;
+use std::from_str::from_str;
+use std::io::process::Process;
+
+use getopts::{
+    getopts,
+    optopt,
+    optflag,
+    optflagopt,
+    usage,
+};
+
+use signals::{
+    ALL_SIGNALS,
+    DEFAULT_SIGNAL,
+};
+
+mod signals;
+
+#[path = "../common/util.rs"]
+mod util;
+
+static NAME: &'static str = "kill";
+static VERSION:  &'static str = "0.0.1";
+
+static EXIT_OK:  i32 = 0;
+static EXIT_ERR: i32 = 1;
+
+
+
+pub enum Mode {
+    Kill,
+    Table,
+    List,
+    Help,
+    Version,
+}
+
+
+fn main() {
+    let args = os::args();
+
+    let opts = ~[
+        optflag("h", "help", "display this help and exit"),
+        optflag("V", "version", "output version information and exit"),
+        optopt("s", "signal", "specify the <signal> to be sent", "SIGNAL"),
+        optflagopt("l", "list", "list all signal names, or convert one to a name", "LIST"),
+        optflag("L", "table", "list all signal names in a nice table"),
+    ];
+
+    let usage = usage("[options] <pid> [...]", opts);
+
+
+    let matches = match getopts(args.tail(), opts) {
+        Ok(m) => m,
+        Err(e) => {
+            let msg = format!("{}\n{}", e.to_err_msg(),  get_help_text(NAME, usage));
+            show_error!(EXIT_ERR, "{}", msg);
+            return
+        },
+    };
+
+
+    let mode = if matches.opt_present("version") {
+        Version
+    } else if matches.opt_present("help") {
+        Help
+    } else if matches.opt_present("table") {
+        Table
+    } else if matches.opt_present("list") {
+        List
+    } else {
+        Kill
+    };
+
+    match mode {
+        Kill    => kill(matches.opt_str("signal").unwrap_or(~"9"), matches.free),
+        Table   => table(),
+        List    => list(matches.opt_str("list")),
+        Help    => help(NAME, usage),
+        Version => version(),
+    }
+}
+
+fn version() {
+    println!("{} {}", NAME, VERSION);
+}
+
+fn table() {
+
+    let mut name_width = 0;
+    /* Compute the maximum width of a signal name. */
+    for s in ALL_SIGNALS.iter() {
+        if s.name.len() > name_width {
+            name_width = s.name.len()
+        }
+    }
+
+    for (idx, signal) in ALL_SIGNALS.iter().enumerate() {
+        print!("{0: >#2} {1: <#8}", idx+1, signal.name);
+        //TODO: obtain max signal width here
+        
+        if (idx+1) % 7 == 0 {
+            println!("");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn print_signal(signal_name_or_value: ~str) {
+    for signal in ALL_SIGNALS.iter() {
+        if signal.name == signal_name_or_value  || ("SIG" + signal.name) == signal_name_or_value {
+            println!("{}", signal.value)
+            exit!(EXIT_OK)
+        } else if signal_name_or_value == signal.value.to_str() {
+            println!("{}", signal.name);
+            exit!(EXIT_OK)
+        }
+    }
+    crash!(EXIT_ERR, "unknown signal name {}", signal_name_or_value)
+}
+
+fn print_signals() {
+    let mut pos = 0;
+    for (idx, signal) in ALL_SIGNALS.iter().enumerate() {
+        pos += signal.name.len();
+        print!("{}", signal.name);
+        if idx > 0 && pos > 73 {
+            println!("");
+            pos = 0;
+        } else {
+            pos += 1;
+            print!(" ");
+        } 
+    }
+}
+
+fn list(arg: Option<~str>) {
+    match arg {
+      Some(x) => print_signal(x),
+      None => print_signals(),
+    };
+}
+
+fn get_help_text(progname: &str, usage: &str) -> ~str {
+    let msg = format!("Usage: \n {0} {1}", progname, usage);
+    msg
+}
+
+fn help(progname: &str, usage: &str) {
+    println!("{}", get_help_text(progname, usage));
+}
+
+fn signal_by_name_or_value(signal_name_or_value:~str) -> Option<uint> {
+    if signal_name_or_value == ~"0"{
+        return Some(0);
+    }
+    for signal in ALL_SIGNALS.iter() {
+        let long_name = "SIG" + signal.name;
+        if signal.name == signal_name_or_value  || (signal_name_or_value == signal.value.to_str()) || (long_name == signal_name_or_value) {
+            return Some(signal.value);
+        }
+    }
+    return None;
+}
+
+fn kill(signalname: ~str, pids: std::vec::Vec<~str>) {
+    let optional_signal_value = signal_by_name_or_value(signalname.clone());
+    let mut signal_value:uint = DEFAULT_SIGNAL;
+    match optional_signal_value {
+        Some(x) => signal_value = x,
+        None => {
+            crash!(EXIT_ERR, "unknown signal name {}", signalname)
+        }
+    }
+    for pid in pids.iter() {
+        match from_str::<i32>(*pid) {
+            Some(x) => {
+                let result = Process::kill(x, signal_value as int);
+                match result {
+                  Ok(_) => (),
+                  Err(_) => ()
+                };
+            },
+            None => {
+                crash!(EXIT_ERR, "failed to parse argument {}", signalname)
+            },
+        };
+    }
+}
diff --git a/kill/signals.rs b/kill/signals.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..74039a565
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kill/signals.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of the uutils coreutils package.
+ *
+ * (c) Maciej Dziardziel <fiedzia@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE file
+ * that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+pub static DEFAULT_SIGNAL:uint = 15;
+
+
+pub struct Signal<'a> { pub name:&'a str, pub value: uint}
+
+/*
+
+Linux Programmer's Manual
+
+ 1 HUP      2 INT      3 QUIT     4 ILL      5 TRAP     6 ABRT     7 BUS
+ 8 FPE      9 KILL    10 USR1    11 SEGV    12 USR2    13 PIPE    14 ALRM
+15 TERM    16 STKFLT  17 CHLD    18 CONT    19 STOP    20 TSTP    21 TTIN
+22 TTOU    23 URG     24 XCPU    25 XFSZ    26 VTALRM  27 PROF    28 WINCH
+29 POLL    30 PWR     31 SYS
+ 
+
+*/
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+pub static ALL_SIGNALS:[Signal<'static>, ..31] = [
+    Signal{ name: "HUP",    value:1  },
+    Signal{ name: "INT",    value:2  },
+    Signal{ name: "QUIT",   value:3  },
+    Signal{ name: "ILL",    value:4  },
+    Signal{ name: "TRAP",   value:5  },
+    Signal{ name: "ABRT",   value:6  },
+    Signal{ name: "BUS",    value:7  },
+    Signal{ name: "FPE",    value:8  },
+    Signal{ name: "KILL",   value:9  },
+    Signal{ name: "USR1",   value:10 },
+    Signal{ name: "SEGV",   value:11 },
+    Signal{ name: "USR2",   value:12 },
+    Signal{ name: "PIPE",   value:13 },
+    Signal{ name: "ALRM",   value:14 },
+    Signal{ name: "TERM",   value:15 },
+    Signal{ name: "STKFLT", value:16 },
+    Signal{ name: "CHLD",   value:17 },
+    Signal{ name: "CONT",   value:18 },
+    Signal{ name: "STOP",   value:19 },
+    Signal{ name: "TSTP",   value:20 },
+    Signal{ name: "TTIN",   value:21 },
+    Signal{ name: "TTOU",   value:22 },
+    Signal{ name: "URG",    value:23 },
+    Signal{ name: "XCPU",   value:24 },
+    Signal{ name: "XFSZ",   value:25 },
+    Signal{ name: "VTALRM", value:26 },
+    Signal{ name: "PROF",   value:27 },
+    Signal{ name: "WINCH",  value:28 },
+    Signal{ name: "POLL",   value:29 },
+    Signal{ name: "PWR",    value:30 },
+    Signal{ name: "SYS",    value:31 },
+];
+
+
+/*
+
+
+https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/signal.3.html
+
+
+No    Name         Default Action       Description
+1     SIGHUP       terminate process    terminal line hangup
+2     SIGINT       terminate process    interrupt program
+3     SIGQUIT      create core image    quit program
+4     SIGILL       create core image    illegal instruction
+5     SIGTRAP      create core image    trace trap
+6     SIGABRT      create core image    abort program (formerly SIGIOT)
+7     SIGEMT       create core image    emulate instruction executed
+8     SIGFPE       create core image    floating-point exception
+9     SIGKILL      terminate process    kill program
+10    SIGBUS       create core image    bus error
+11    SIGSEGV      create core image    segmentation violation
+12    SIGSYS       create core image    non-existent system call invoked
+13    SIGPIPE      terminate process    write on a pipe with no reader
+14    SIGALRM      terminate process    real-time timer expired
+15    SIGTERM      terminate process    software termination signal
+16    SIGURG       discard signal       urgent condition present on socket
+17    SIGSTOP      stop process         stop (cannot be caught or ignored)
+18    SIGTSTP      stop process         stop signal generated from keyboard
+19    SIGCONT      discard signal       continue after stop
+20    SIGCHLD      discard signal       child status has changed
+21    SIGTTIN      stop process         background read attempted from control terminal
+22    SIGTTOU      stop process         background write attempted to control terminal
+23    SIGIO        discard signal       I/O is possible on a descriptor (see fcntl(2))
+24    SIGXCPU      terminate process    cpu time limit exceeded (see setrlimit(2))
+25    SIGXFSZ      terminate process    file size limit exceeded (see setrlimit(2))
+26    SIGVTALRM    terminate process    virtual time alarm (see setitimer(2))
+27    SIGPROF      terminate process    profiling timer alarm (see setitimer(2))
+28    SIGWINCH     discard signal       Window size change
+29    SIGINFO      discard signal       status request from keyboard
+30    SIGUSR1      terminate process    User defined signal 1
+31    SIGUSR2      terminate process    User defined signal 2
+
+*/
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+pub static ALL_SIGNALS:[Signal<'static>, ..31] = [
+    Signal{ name: "HUP",    value:1  },
+    Signal{ name: "INT",    value:2  },
+    Signal{ name: "QUIT",   value:3  },
+    Signal{ name: "ILL",    value:4  },
+    Signal{ name: "TRAP",   value:5  },
+    Signal{ name: "ABRT",   value:6  },
+    Signal{ name: "EMT",    value:7  },
+    Signal{ name: "FPE",    value:8  },
+    Signal{ name: "KILL",   value:9  },
+    Signal{ name: "BUS",    value:10 },
+    Signal{ name: "SEGV",   value:11 },
+    Signal{ name: "SYS",    value:12 },
+    Signal{ name: "PIPE",   value:13 },
+    Signal{ name: "ALRM",   value:14 },
+    Signal{ name: "TERM",   value:15 },
+    Signal{ name: "URG",    value:16 },
+    Signal{ name: "STOP",   value:17 },
+    Signal{ name: "TSTP",   value:18 },
+    Signal{ name: "CONT",   value:19 },
+    Signal{ name: "CHLD",   value:20 },
+    Signal{ name: "TTIN",   value:21 },
+    Signal{ name: "TTOU",   value:22 },
+    Signal{ name: "IO",     value:23 },
+    Signal{ name: "XCPU",   value:24 },
+    Signal{ name: "XFSZ",   value:25 },
+    Signal{ name: "VTALRM", value:26 },
+    Signal{ name: "PROF",   value:27 },
+    Signal{ name: "WINCH",  value:28 },
+    Signal{ name: "INFO",   value:29 },
+    Signal{ name: "USR1",   value:30 },
+    Signal{ name: "USR2",   value:31 },
+];