Word: murder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monitor that remained attached to the baby showed that his heart had stopped beating. Linares then turned over his weapon and surrendered. As the handcuffed father was led into a police station, Linares said, "I did it because I loved my son." He was charged with first-degree murder and has been ordered by a judge to undergo a psychiatric examination...
...happy to live in the murder capital of the world? Banning the imports of automatic weapons will just force drug dealers to "Kill American." It's a heck of a way to fight the trade deficit, Mr. President. You must take stronger action against guns, or else the violence will continue--that's more important than jeopardizing your life-time membership in the National Rifle Association...
...Wade. Sometimes those seem like the most contentious words in American law. Short and unassuming though they are, they connote other, more explosive terms: abortion and murder, morality and privacy, the right to life and the right to choose. Attached to those words are some of the most intractable passions in American life. Writing about medical advances that improve the chances for a fetus to survive outside the womb, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor once declared that the 1973 decision was "on a collision course with itself." Sixteen years after Roe obliged all 50 states to legalize...
...oppose limiting a woman's right to have an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. In effect, most Americans would treat abortion as something like divorce -- an anguishing decision but not a crime. Pro-life forces want to convince them that abortion is more like murder -- one of those acts that cannot be sanctioned as a choice. As each side flourishes its arguments and passions, its pictures of fetuses and coat hangers, the conscience too can feel set on a collision course with itself...
Somnuk Viriyahiranpaib, who is believed to be in his early 30s, was charged with two counts of murder, Brookline Police Det. Barry McNeilly said...