Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...killers underestimated the public response. Instead of being dismissed, the murder may have destroyed the last vestiges of confidence in the system. The media pummeled the government for incompetence and toleration of extremism and venality. Corruption, unsolved murders, open demonstrations by neo-Nazis and anti-Semites mean just one thing, the newspaper Izvestiya declared in a typical front-page editorial: "It means that in Russia today there is no state; it is dead...
...behind the killing. A prominent Starovoitova colleague alleged that Duma speaker Gennadi Seleznev, a communist, had ordered it. Some communists retorted that Starovoitova's allies had killed her to create a martyr. A leading communist Deputy accused businessman Boris Berezovsky of ordering the hit. Calmer heads suggested that the murder was connected to a dirty election campaign in St. Petersburg...
...miracle solution--hair transplants, Taekwondo or a shot of heart-stopping potassium chloride. In the final act come the gushing testimonials. Youk couldn't play the role of satisfied customer himself--by Act III he was dead--but his wife Melody stepped in. "I don't consider it murder," she told the viewers at home. "I consider it humane...
...Youk with a syringe and asked, "Sleepy, Tom?," the image was bloodcurdling. But he has an unerring sense of what excites journalists--and incites prosecutors. Three days after the 60 Minutes story aired on CBS, Kevorkian got what he had explicitly wished for: he was charged with first-degree murder. Though he has been acquitted three times of helping patients end their life, this time he crossed a significant line: he administered the lethal injection himself. And thus Kevorkian has single-handedly moved the national debate over the right to die a wrenching step farther: from doctor-assisted suicide...
...televised death of Youk, a vintage-car restorer from Waterford Township, Mich., set off a round of finger pointing over the motives behind the performance. Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca, who filed the murder charges last Wednesday, accused Kevorkian of airing the video to satisfy his "attention-starved ego." CBS, meanwhile, faced accusations of exploiting the death for ratings. The segment did help boost the show's numbers--the household rating was up 20% over the season average--during the critical fall sweeps period, which sets local advertising rates. Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes' executive producer, insisted his show wasn...