Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old honor student, sat stony- faced at her desk in English class, silently preparing to collect a couple of hundred dollars on a dare. She had settled on a simple plan. Just wait for the bell to ring, reach into her book bag, grab the 12-in. fillet knife she had brought from home and stab the teacher in the chest while Marlena, a 12- year-old accomplice, pinned her down. Then -- whoosh -- instant respect...
When Greenhill entered the classroom, a few students whispered, "Get her now! Get her now!" while others said, "You better not." The assistant principal intervened and ordered the two conspirators to her office, where she confiscated the knife and called the police. Last Friday, Okiki and Marlena were charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. Now parents, teachers and the 700 students at Irving Middle School in Lorain, Ohio, a racially mixed, economically strained town of 70,000, are looking for explanations. They are talking about the growing gang violence, the drug syndicates from New York City and Detroit that...
...years. When prison officials granted Alan Matheney an eight-hour pass in March 1989, he drove directly to Bianco's home, broke in and beat her to death with the butt of a shotgun. Last March, Shirley Lowery, a grandmother of 11, was stabbed 19 times with a butcher knife by her former boyfriend in the hallway of the courthouse where she had gone to get an order of protection...
...traditional case of self-defense, a jury is presented a "snapshot" of a crime: the mugger threatens a subway rider with a knife; the rider pulls a gun and shoots his attacker. It is up to the jurors to decide whether the danger was real and immediate and whether the response was reasonable. A woman who shoots her husband while he lunges at her with a knife should have little trouble claiming that she acted in self-defense. Yet lawyers still find jurors to be very uncomfortable with female violence under any circumstances, especially violence directed...
...after-dinner snack . . .barbecuing people's livers . . .banqueting on human meat." The same document matter-of-factly relates specific tales of depravity. "On May 14, 1968," it says, "a group of 11, led by the Wei brothers, captured a man named Chen Guorong and killed him with a big knife before cutting out his liver. They shared the human meat with 20 participants." The same month Wu Shufang, a teacher at the Wuxuan Middle School, was beaten to death; her liver was roasted and eaten. During 1968, 91 members of the Communist Party in Guangxi were expelled on charges that...