| The only definitions at all relevant to the present debate appear to be a slaughter or massacre, or mass murder of people in a specific group. |
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| He also discovers a nest of intrigue, decadence and a heathen willingness to murder people very casually if they get in your way. |
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| His murder was the catalyst for the outbreak of gun terror around Chapeltown as Yardies and home-grown dealers battled for supremacy. |
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| Her world collapses when her firm forces her to take first chair defense in a murder case involving a smug yakuza who's obviously guilty. |
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| The red herrings don't seem as cheap as they often do in murder mysteries, and Jerry is far from the infallible, all-knowing investigator. |
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| She had always been brought up to believe murder was wrong, regardless of circumstance. |
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| I cannot see how it is possible to right the wrong of murder or another crime with killing someone. |
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| The murder of this family, five in number, was the work of a moment, not one of them awoke. |
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| The murder weapon, a knife, was discovered on the passenger seat of his car earlier this afternoon. |
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| Soon after witnessing the rape and murder of his ostracised mother, he leaves home without word. |
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| This book is recommended to almost anyone, but mostly to those who like murder mysteries. |
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| Today we have the phenomenon of recidivist murder committed by released killers. |
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| When police checked his computer it contained information about kidnappings, murder and the mutilation of bodies. |
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| Among those victims of kidnap, torture and murder were my own uncle, cousin and brother. |
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| First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter. |
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| Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated. |
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| Police in Bolton are to crack down on kerb-crawling following the murder of two prostitutes in the town. |
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| How does the 17-year minimum starting point for aggravated murder under the Sentencing Act compare with the legislation it replaced? |
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| But for aggravated murder in this circumstance, we believe that it will be founded upon two deaths, the fetus and the mother. |
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| It's a whodunit about the murder of a trucking company owner who is also an illegal alien smuggler. |
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| Further compounding the peril is the fact that this is basically a murder mystery, a whodunit with slasher overtones. |
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| Traditional values are so perverted by slavery that Sethe is driven to murder her own daughter to keep her from slavery's horrors. |
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| The murder rates of the U.S. and U.K. are also affected by differences in the way each counts homicides. |
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| What about the career criminal scheduled for lethal injection because a fellow inmate pinned a murder rap on him in exchange for time off? |
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| We have no doubt that the instigators of Costello's murder still hold ranking positions within the Workers Party. |
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| Philippa survived the murder attempt, when Walter stabbed her, because her whalebone corset protected her. |
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| He's been missing for 24 hours and is wanted for a murder committed during his amnesiac period. |
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| The televised US murder trials are cited as examples of how court cases have turned into media circuses. |
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| An actor confronts gay bashing and grief in Texas when he attends the murder trial of the man who killed his lover. |
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| Both had made death threats against her before her desperate flight from the murder scene. |
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| Well, that's as maybe, but he's also a man who regarded murder and terror as an acceptable way of advancing political ends. |
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| Saunders pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and was sentenced in July to 20 to 40 years in prison. |
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| He was convicted of kidnap and murder in July after he admitted the crimes. |
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| His behavior was in no way accidental, and he was in fact subsequently convicted of second-degree murder for killing Fansler. |
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| Solicitors acting on behalf of a double murder suspect are to take an appeal against his extradition to the Dutch High Court in The Hague. |
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| According to an excitable tabloid, he viewed the murder as good material for a future book. |
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| Five suspects accused of masterminding the June bombing are on trial in the southern port city, charged with conspiracy, murder and terrorism. |
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| If that is the case, my client was deprived of the chance of an acquittal on the murder count. |
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| He believes the film makers clearly identified him as the mastermind behind the murder despite his acquittal at the Special Criminal Court. |
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| His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything that Danny's kidnappers claim to believe in. |
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| Detectives have been given extra time to quiz a murder suspect over the fatal stabbing of a Swindon man. |
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| The defendant at the bar stands indicted by the grand jury of this county with the crime of murder in the first degree. |
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| He only turns to crime for revenge when he is accused of the attempted murder of a policeman. |
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| He holds the unsavory record for mass murder in America, based on the 48 killings he ultimately would confess to committing. |
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| Those involved in the mass murder on Tuesday must be held accountable for their actions. |
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| We also rank first in violence against gays so from gay bashing to murder we have a lot of problems in this country. |
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| Is she an accomplice in the murder or did she not even know her parents had been shot? |
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| We must never forget the day when the terrorists left their mark of murder on our nation. |
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| The accessory to murder charges remain in force, along with a charge of membership in a terrorist organization. |
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| She also brought out her banjo and sang some sea shanties and murder ballads, accompanied by her guitarist Skippy. |
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| At the end of Henry IV, in a re-enactment of Hamlet's murder of Polonius, Henry wilfully thrusts his sword into Belcredi. |
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| Around 30 officers scoured the murder scene for clues and carried out door-to-door enquiries in the area. |
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| Whether an offender deserves to be convicted of murder or manslaughter is for the jury to determine. |
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| Any person who intentionally kills another may be prosecuted for murder or manslaughter. |
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| The most serious offences which Mary may be charged with are murder and manslaughter. |
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| Indeed, it appears a war crime could be single murder or rape of a civilian by a soldier. |
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| The murder has baffled police, who still have no motive and no suspect for the shooting. |
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| Police baffled by the murder of a North Yorkshire man have turned to national TV in the hope of tracking down the killer. |
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| He was named as wanted by Bedfordshire Police in 1998 in connection with the murder of Mr Farrow. |
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| The murder shocked the entire country because of the nature of the victim and the manner of his death. |
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| Following the murder he was identified by a telephone call made by him to police. |
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| It is the excelsior from the tea set that Kenneth mails to Rhoda that she sets afire to murder Leroy. |
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| Clearly, the state now both sanctioned murder and offered absolution from guilt for the perpetrators. |
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| The heartbroken mother of Easter murder victim Lucy Royle today made a tearful plea for help to find her savage killer. |
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| Chris, in a murder case we know the black and white letter of the law says the state does not have to prove motive. |
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| In both movie and book, the murder is committed by a killer armed with what appears to have been a sawed-off shotgun. |
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| His column about the murder was pulled by the Daily Telegraph this week on grounds of taste. |
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| The only alibi he can provide for the night of the murder is that he was being spanked by a tart in frilly knickers. |
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| During my career we did investigate quite a few satanic murder cases and a human sacrifice. |
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| You were convicted by a jury in 1984 of murder of your common-law wife and sentenced to life imprisonment, with the tariff set at 12 years. |
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| The country has been accused of a series of grisly human rights abuses, including torture, murder and boiling detainees alive. |
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| The year-old murder case is pretty interesting, but it's not likely to become a full-blown, wall-to-wall media obsession like the Simpson saga. |
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| Everyone was awed by the moral implications of mass murder on such a grand scale. |
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| Talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey showed up for court duty in Chicago today and was tapped to sit on a jury in a murder case. |
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| This heinous act of the murder of a little girl and the wounding of her peers go beyond the boundaries of reason and sanity. |
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| For my brother's honor, and our family's honor, his murder needed to be avenged. |
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| The sanctity of human life has been sidelined as an irrelevance in the Republic as blindly as in any paramilitary murder in the North. |
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| The jury took less than two hours to reach a verdict of not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. |
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| Tommy is also a suspect in a series of bombings in the capital and in the murder of a judge who sentenced him. |
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| Kerekes defended himself against accusations that he was representing violent, sexual murder in a salacious, titillating and insensitive manner. |
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| Texas secessionists organized lynch mobs across the state to murder anyone who opposed secession. |
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| At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized murder machinery of a state. |
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| Angry mobs lynching someone suspected of murder is wrong, even if that person is actually guilty. |
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| The strategy broke powerful religious taboos against suicide and the murder of innocents. |
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| In the first story, a deformed lunk named Marv avenges the murder of a prostitute who treated him kindly. |
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| There he encounters a lunatic who is obsessed with murder and who appears to be dripping blood. |
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| In January the authorities charged the two alleged attackers with murder and arson. |
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| The reaction to the murder case made it seem like the killers were degenerates, aberrant psychos who were far removed from normality. |
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| Her murder is a political thunderbolt that, if correctly harnessed, could single-handedly save the pro-euro cause. |
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| Two of the abductors were arrested and indicted on murder but at their trial they were found not guilty by an all white jury in under 2 hours. |
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| The scene is still one of bewilderment and fear as reports of abductions and murder grab the headlines. |
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| I'd already done the book on Cobain's murder and I didn't want to get typecast in the book world as this wacko conspiracy nut. |
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| The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction for murder and substituted one of manslaughter. |
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| The polling has indicated only lukewarm support, and that at a time when emotions about child murder are running exceptionally high. |
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| The tale of one ruthless military man getting away with murder is probably the story that has sickened me most. |
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| Some proponents of murder theories had previously suggested a harried and rushed embalming process. |
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| The Crusaders mistook the Nizaris' association with political murder with hashish addiction and spawned the Assassins legend. |
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| We also give the name of the assassin who attempted three days ago to murder an SEP member. |
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| Homicide detectives follow some pretty straightforward rules in murder investigations. |
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| The boy was arraigned yesterday on charges of second-degree murder and attempted murder of a police officer. |
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| Yesterday, Armenians were remembering the first mass murder of civilians in the twentieth century. |
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| How do I know you haven't edited out all the interesting bits, simply because you don't approve of murder stories? |
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| What is the difference between revolution and murder and how can you rise above apathy in a world where there is nothing left to believe in? |
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| Her claims even go as far as describing an apparent attempted murder to which she was the eyewitness. |
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| I do not intend to get into an argument with an apologist for mass murder such as yourself. |
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| It is whether a mandatory life sentence for murder infringes the principle, if it does apply. |
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| However, even in the case of a life sentence for murder the circumstances of the offence are taken into account. |
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| One parent was dead and the second parent was convicted of the murder and is serving a life sentence in prison. |
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| He did not think he would be convicted of murder and receive a life sentence. |
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| He was a tough Scotsman and had been sentenced to life for the murder of a man in a drunken brawl. |
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| There was a huge public outcry when he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life. |
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| This was an allusion to the most infamous murder committed by the two anti-heroines of the book as they are on the run through France. |
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| Gripped by a sense of revulsion at the ongoing murder campaign, several thousand heeded his call and took to the street outside City Hall. |
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| Two Jamaican officers in the murder investigation team have been attached to the ICC's anti-corruption unit. |
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| We assume a stunning revelation about the murder is forthcoming, but the twist, when it finally arrives, is anticlimactically ambiguous. |
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| Many anti-abortionists claim that late-term abortion is unadulterated murder because the fetus could survive outside of the womb. |
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| There is the famous joke about the man who kills his parents and then looks for leniency at his murder trial because he is an orphan. |
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| In a dramatic confrontation the governor attempted to murder the emperor's legate but, failing to do so, committed suicide. |
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| Defense attorneys in the murder trial rested their case today after hearing testimony from a forensics expert. |
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| He places the blame and responsibility for the murder on the boy in question and how he was raised. |
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| It would demonstrate American capabilities to the armed punks who rape, torture and murder the unarmed and helpless on a daily basis. |
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| She had a wall full of books on one side that went from murder to the latest fantasy fiction. |
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| John the Baptist's murder might well have been similarly cast save for the tradition that followed him, which recounts the story in which he is a martyred saint. |
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| Australian police yesterday won the right to analyse genetic samples taken from a prime suspect in the suspected murder of a Yorkshire backpacker. |
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| He was made bishop of Dunkeld in 1544 and three years later, after the murder of Cardinal Beaton, was translated to the archbishopric of St Andrews and primacy. |
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| He couldn't stay here and be an accessory to murder and theft. |
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| The 29-year-old Moroccan had been found guilty on more than 3,000 counts of being an accessory to murder and of being a member of a terrorist organisation. |
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| She attends writing classes for both short stories and novels and has completed two of her own novels, one of which is a murder story set in a market town. |
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| This roller coaster ride of a novel is all about a young bicycle messenger who suddenly finds himself a prime suspect in the murder of a low-end criminal defense lawyer. |
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| In addition to the 3,066 counts of accessory to murder, he was convicted of five counts of accessory to attempted murder and accessory to causing bodily injury. |
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| He was sentenced to life behind bars for her murder in June this year. |
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| In 1828 Curr tried to charge one of his superintendents with being an accessory to murder after one of his convict servants had killed an Aboriginal woman. |
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| Prosecutors formally indicted her on two counts of capital murder last week and her attorneys promptly gave notice they would enter an insanity defence. |
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| The murder was likely aimed at terrorizing the local residents. |
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| Secondly, the expert evidence which persuaded the Court of Appeal to quash the murder conviction and substitute manslaughter had not been before the jury. |
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| The ineptly conceived murder of the boys is resoundingly anticlimactic. |
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| Surprising developments have kept the murder investigation in the headlines for several weeks. |
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| Watching it, it's got all the fun of a murder mystery musical, but the undercurrent of aggression never lets it slip into the realm of a wispy bagatelle. |
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| All he had now was a life sentence in jail, for attempted murder and rape. |
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| The court sentenced the girl to a prison term of five to 10 years for abetting the murder of her former boyfriend by urging her gangster lover to commit the crime. |
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| Once a jury renders a guilty verdict for murder in the first degree, mitigating factors are weighed against aggravating circumstances to decide the defendant's fate. |
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| It is a classic case of cold-blooded murder with malice aforethought. |
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| No organized religion preaches murder and hatred of innocent people. |
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| Abroad, the risk of kidnap or murder has soared in many places. |
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| The senior officers who masterminded the murder have not been indicted. |
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| He claims that he was home when the murder was committed, but he has no proof. |
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| Though human life was not regarded as sacred in antiquity, the Greeks judged murder to be an act of impiety, since it offended the gods and caused miasma or pollution. |
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| Alien smugglers are also often involved in murder and drug dealings, so local officials believe their efforts will have a multiplier effect on other crime. |
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| At present there are a number of persons accused of murder at liberty on bail and in some cases it is many months after the alleged murder that the case comes to trial. |
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| The case under consideration involved an alleged terrorist conspiracy to murder in relation to which both countries would claim extra-territorial jurisdiction. |
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| This helps to explain why murder is such an atrocious crime. |
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| This was the biggest mass murder in the history of the state. |
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| Police now believe the letter opener to have been the murder weapon. |
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| After a series of twists and turns, Orestes makes himself known to Electra and they avenge their father's murder by committing an act of matricide. |
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| Moose recalls that he had difficulty sleeping during the investigation and that he worried about whether he would be allowed to remain in control of the murder hunt. |
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| The leaders of the rival gang are looking over their shoulders for the Westies, who have yet to revenge the murder of Bernard Sugg, brother of Stephen, last August. |
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| In June, the Sultan had an Assassin try to murder Prince Edward. |
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| Just recently, two people convicted, one of them for murder for drag racing on a public street, rammed into another car, killing people in the car. |
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| A witness in the case of seven men accused of conspiracy to murder told police how the car he was travelling in with the victim was rammed by another vehicle. |
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| When the Wagners were left alone in the police cruiser, a tape recording released by the police indicates that they schemed to murder the arresting police officers. |
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| Tom ended his recount of the events leading up to the murder there but promised that more on the saga would be revealed on February 4 at the Boys' School. |
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| Meanwhile, a group of leftist radicals is on a crime spree of murder and robbery, arming themselves with automatic weapons, explosives, and rockets. |
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| The scene now begins abruptly with the murder of Perdita's sister. |
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| During the day I do walk-on work in programmes with murder in the title. |
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| Indeed, the Camorra spawned one of Italy's most notorious female criminals, Pupetta Maresca, who became famous in 1955 after she personally avenged the murder of her husband. |
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| People often write in about the conventional terms for groups of animals and people, especially birds, such as parliament of rooks or murder of crows. |
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| This is a taut thriller in which the grounds for torture, rape and murder is Nazism. |
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| The murder of children is broken down by age and gender, and so is the murder of women. |
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| This social capital is evident in the differences in the Salic Law's punishment for murder based on a woman's ability to bear children. |
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| The families involved would lock themselves in their towers and, when they got the chance, would murder members of the opposing family. |
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| The murder bore all the hallmarks of a serial killer's work. |
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| The murder investigation has been in the headlines for several weeks. |
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| The coroner performed an autopsy on the murder victim's body. |
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| You'd imagine a 26-year sentence for a brutal murder would be enough to assuage the amour-propre of any police force. |
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| As the year 1934, an annus horribilis of political murder and bankrupt statesmanship, drew toward a close, Europe had the jitters. |
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| The distinction between murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder is fine but appreciable. |
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| For example, murder is a common law crime rather than one established by an Act of Parliament. |
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| The murder of the Archbishop gave rise to a wave of popular outrage against the King. |
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| Scots common law covers matters including murder and theft, and has sources in custom, in legal writings and previous court decisions. |
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| When his father is killed he is suspected of the murder so he escapes to England. |
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| In response to the murder of Pertinax, Severus was proclaimed Emperor at Carnuntum by his legion XIV Gemina. |
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| According to this, after Constantine had pardoned him, Maximian planned to murder Constantine in his sleep. |
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| Entry of his brother's name in the Canterbury codex may have been Cnut's attempt to make his vengeance for Harald's murder good with the Church. |
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| Controversial events associated with the black metal movement in the early 1990s included several church burnings and two prominent murder cases. |
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| Brian Donlevy is a wealthy industrialist who survives an attempted murder when his wife's boyfriend is killed in a car crash. |
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| The murder has never been conclusively solved, and Richard's contemporaries widely suspected his involvement. |
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| Following the murder of Henry VI and death of his son, Edward, in 1471, Henry became the person upon whom the Lancastrian cause rested. |
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| Rous also attributes the murder of Henry VI to Richard, and claims that he poisoned his own wife. |
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| Darnley quickly became unpopular in Scotland and then infamous for presiding over the murder of Mary's Italian secretary David Rizzio. |
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| Shortly afterwards, on 15 May 1567, Mary married Bothwell, arousing suspicions that she had been party to the murder of her husband. |
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| Indictable only offences such as murder and rape must be tried on indictment in the Crown Court. |
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| Corfe Castle in 978 saw the murder of King Edward the Martyr, whose body was taken first to Wareham and then to Shaftesbury. |
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| However, Annemund's murder took place in 660 and Wilfrid returned to England in 658, suggesting that Stephen's chronology is awry. |
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| In 1173, Becket's sister Mary was appointed as abbess of Barking Abbey as reparation for the murder of her brother. |
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| In 1678 the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was ascribed to her servants, and Titus Oates accused her of an intention to poison the king. |
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| Although Judith commits murder in the poem, she is constantly doused with a saintly light. |
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| Montague argues that Romeo has justly executed Tybalt for the murder of Mercutio. |
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| Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husband's uncertainty and wishes him to murder Duncan in order to obtain kingship. |
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| Macbeth and Banquo then together plot the murder of Duncan, at Lady Macbeth's urging. |
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| The 1993 murder of Mayhem's Euronymous by Burzum's Varg Vikernes provoked intensive media coverage. |
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| In 1779 the pavement outside the playhouse was the scene of the murder of Martha Ray, mistress of the Earl of Sandwich, by her admirer the Rev. |
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| Jamaican police had initially launched a murder investigation into Woolmer's death but later confirmed that he died of heart failure. |
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| The government campaign that crushed the movement was provoked by a murder that took place in Huddersfield. |
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| O'Sullivan's father was jailed in 1992 for murder and released 18 years later. |
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| This arrangement was seen as expedient, however, as Godwin had been implicated in the murder of Alfred, the king's brother. |
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| New World slaves were considered the property of their owners, and slaves convicted of revolt or murder were executed. |
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| In 2015, Amnesty International reported that the Taliban committed mass murder and gang rape of Afghan civilians in Kunduz. |
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| In 1231 the line of Norse earls, unbroken since Rognvald, ended with Jon Haraldsson's murder in Thurso. |
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| Donaldson was found fatally shot in his home in County Donegal on 4 April 2006, and a murder inquiry was launched. |
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| On 27 February 2005, a demonstration against the murder of Robert McCartney on 30 January 2005 was held in East Belfast. |
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| However, the debate prior to the vote mainly surrounded the more recent events connected with the murder of Robert McCartney. |
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| The case involved the trial of Carnegie of Finhaven for the murder of the Earl of Strathmore. |
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| Along with substance abuse, criminal involvement, suicide and murder were also on the rise. |
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| When the male members of the community discover what is going on, they murder him. |
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| When Charles Stewart Parnell was falsely accused of inciting murder Wilde wrote a series of astute columns defending him in the Daily Chronicle. |
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| Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton. |
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| So many pistols I have borrowed to protect myselves from creatures who too readily recognize my weapons and have murder in their heart! |
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| On 10 February 1306, Bruce participated in the murder of Comyn, at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries. |
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| They state that the Comyn murder was planned in an attempt to gain the throne of Scotland. |
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| Bruce was subsequently excommunicated as a result, less for the murder than for its location. |
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| The new duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, blamed Charles for the murder and entered into an alliance with the English. |
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| The indictment of murder thus upon her, she had been forced to abdicate and was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle. |
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| Knox's second wife, Margaret Stewart, got remarried to Andrew Ker, one of those involved in the murder of David Rizzio. |
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| There is no concrete proof of her complicity in Darnley's murder or of a conspiracy with Bothwell. |
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| He was reviled by Covenanters, and his murder in 1679 led to an escalation of hostilities. |
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| However, the murder victims were primarily female, while the eight surviving figures are male. |
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| In cases of involuntary manslaughter, the actus reus for murder is present but there is insufficient mens rea to establish such a charge. |
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| The jury then decides whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty of either murder or manslaughter. |
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| In 786, after the murder of Cynewulf, Offa may have intervened to place Beorhtric on the West Saxon throne. |
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| As well, American murder rates are higher for handgun killings than for killings by other firearms and for killings by nonshooting methods. |
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| In 2007 three of the prosecution witnesses at the original murder trial were convicted of perjury and each jailed for 18 months. |
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| According to a Home Office report, 10 per cent of all murder victims between 2000 and 2004 were black. |
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| They told of subjects such as the Creation, Adam and Eve, the murder of Abel, and the Last Judgement. |
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| The ranks of political prisoners swelled into the thousands, and beatings, torture, and official murder became the order of the day. |
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| The river is a popular site for both suicides and the disposal of bodies of murder victims. |
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| Caesar then pursued Pompey to Egypt, arriving soon after the murder of the general. |
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| Norman Mailer's 1984 noir thriller and murder mystery novel Tough Guys Don't Dance is set in Provincetown on Cape Cod. |
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| The supposed place of his murder is traditionally on, or near, the castle mound. |
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| In 1981, Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others. |
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| West Yorkshire Police were criticised for the time taken in apprehending Sutcliffe despite interviewing him nine times during the murder hunt. |
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| Sutcliffe committed his next murder in Leeds in January 1976, when he stabbed Emily Jackson, aged 42, 51 times. |
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| Tyre tracks left near the murder scene resulted in a long list of possible suspect vehicles. |
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| This was a campaign of murder which terrorised the population of a large part of Yorkshire for several years. |
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| Clark was convicted of the contract murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
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| After police detained him in Scotland, he confessed to being involved in three murder attempts. |
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| Although not a witness to the actual murder he was an accessory having driven Ronnie Kray and Ian Barrie to the pub. |
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| To suggest the dynasty owed its accession to murder would have been less than sensitive. |
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| Upon Nepos's murder in 480 Odoacer invaded Dalmatia, to punish the murderers. |
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| After Maurice's murder by Phocas, Khosrau used the pretext to reconquer the Roman province of Mesopotamia. |
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| Alexander also ordered the murder of Attalus, who was in command of the advance guard of the army in Asia Minor and Cleopatra's uncle. |
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| On the news of Emperor Yang's murder by General Yuwen Huaji on June 18, 618, Li Yuan declared himself the emperor of a new dynasty, the Tang. |
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| This led to Joan I's murder at the hands of the Prince of Durazzo in 1382, and his seizing the throne as Charles III of Naples. |
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| On November 23, 2009, the Maguindanao massacre led to the murder of 34 journalists. |
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| Having preestablished that the murder weapon did not belong to the hotel, the detective widened her field of enquiry. |
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| He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, but President Truman commuted his sentence to life. |
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| The men who were against Atahualpa's conviction and murder argued that he should be judged by King Charles since he was the sovereign prince. |
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| Ivan's murder of his son brought about the extinction of the Rurik Dynasty and the Time of Troubles. |
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| As a result, False Dmitriy I entered Moscow and was crowned tsar that year, following the murder of Tsar Feodor II, Godunov's son. |
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| In 1811, Arthur William Hodge was executed for the murder of a slave in the British West Indies. |
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| Jamaica has had one of the highest murder rates in the world for many years, according to UN estimates. |
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| In 2011, the government established a truce among many major gangs, lowering the murder rate. |
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| Duress and necessity operate as a defence to all crimes except murder, attempted murder and some forms of treason. |
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| A count of murder may be joined with a count charging another offence of murder, or a count charging a different offence. |
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| A count of conspiracy to murder may be joined with a count of aiding and abetting murder. |
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| The sentence for murder is, in all cases, mandatory and depends upon the age of the offender at the time of the crime or conviction. |
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| In any other case, a person convicted of murder must be sentenced to imprisonment for life. |
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| Since the abolition of capital punishment, murder has carried a mandatory life sentence in English law. |
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| For example, the crime of murder must include a mental requirement of at least subjective foresight of death. |
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| The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed his conviction for murder and substituted a verdict of manslaughter. |
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| This applied the ratio decidendi in R v O' Grady for murder and R v Majewski for manslaughter. |
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| Dudley and Stephens were convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged, however their sentence was later reduced to just six months in prison. |
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| In England and Wales, suicide pact is a partial defense, under section 4 of the Homicide Act 1957, which reduces murder to manslaughter. |
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| Weregild, which was a murder fine based on a victim's worth, was intended to prevent blood feuds. |
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| Simpson was acquitted in criminal court of murder but later found liable for the tort of wrongful death. |
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| In the Nanavati case, Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati was tried for the murder of his wife Sylvia's paramour, Prem Ahuja. |
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| One, the onus of proving that it was an accident and not premeditated murder was on Nanavati. |
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| Another alleged miscarriage of justice by jury trial was the Wanninkhof murder case. |
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| It is alleged that the planners and perpetrators of the murder were at the highest echelons of the Somoza regime. |
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| He relented of his plan to murder his opponent, and decided just to teach him a lesson instead. |
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| In recent times, Coniston Water has become known for a controversial murder case. |
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| James has written a book titled Death Comes to Pemberley, which is a murder mystery set six years after Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage. |
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| He surprises Frank and Nora in bed, leading to a struggle and the Captain's subsequent murder by lamp. |
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| Castleton also featured in national news reports in the early 1980s following the murder of Susan Renhard near the battlements of Peveril Castle. |
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| The say-so of one small child is not enough to convict a man of murder in the absence of any other evidence. |
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| As it was, they were unable to discuss the details severally as they would have done had murder not become thus wholesale. |
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| The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels. |
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| In the wake of the superflus and cataclysmic events, male writers tend to jump to that unholy trinity of rape, murder and cannibalism. |
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| According to your testimony, you were supposedly at home watching TV when the murder occurred. |
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| According to your testimony, you were supposively at home watching TV when the murder occurred. |
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| A toxin so potent as abrin can be expected to have appeal as a murder weapon as well as a chemical warfare agent. |
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| Rampal is accused of involvement in a murder case dating from 2006 in which a man died in a clash at another of his ashrams. |
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| Yet it is characteristic of treason and murder among the great that the yoke-devils are not at once noticed by those not directly involved. |
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| You think yous can live wi'oot money! Few months doon this hell, you'll murder for money! |
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| The wafer-thin plot sees Horatio forced to arrest Ryan for the murder of an assistant state attorney. |
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| Libraries can expect demand for this well-read, fascinating story, based on the popularity of Grafton's alphabet murder series. |
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| It focuses on the show's whackiest character, Abi, who gets embroiled in a murder investigation on a cruise. |
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| Uniquely, The Suspect is not a whodunnit but rather a whydunnit, unravelling the riddles behind the murder of an 85 year-old man. |
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| The production revolves around the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, an Episcopalian and a young, gay man, in Laramie, Wyo. |
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| In the Kankiya area of Katsina state, a mob accused a pastor of murder after a body was found at the back of his church. |
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| Towanda Reaves, 50, has been charged with murder and child abuse, and also injected the 17-month-old's sister, who survived the dose. |
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