Word: murdered
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...point for the Supreme Court to consider more than just the means of execution, but the death penalty itself. The advocacy of improving capital punishment is admirable, but the real debate should not come down to how we put criminals to death, but rather the cruelty of state-sanctioned murder...
Perched on the arm of a red leather sofa in the Parlor Room of the Phillips Brooks House (PBH), Emily L.A. Maw told the story of Travis Hayes, who spent 10 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of second-degree murder...
...countless times. There?s no way they?re going to let you in. We asked, Why? What?s the issue? They said, Well there are two reasons. One is that they don?t want anything to happen to you. The last thing they need is another ?Daniel Pearl? murder to happen in Pakistan. The other is they?re afraid of what you?re going to talk about. They?re afraid of what you?ll find. We ended up having to bribe an official at the Pakistani embassy in Afghanistan who was able to get us into the country...
Compared to what Martin McDonagh has put his characters through on stage, the ones in his first feature film have it easy. Over the years, the playwright has turned brothers against brothers, pushed a daughter to murder her mother, drowned a priest, broken countless hearts and killed several small animals...
Very early on the morning of June 30, 1860, a murder took place at an English country house called Road Hill. The owner's son Saville Kent, 3, was gently, silently lifted from his bed. His assailant suffocated him, stabbed him in the chest, cut his throat and finally dropped him head-down through a hole in the servants' outhouse. His body was found later that day. In the months that followed, the Road Hill House murder became a national obsession. It seemed to reveal some sick secret truth lurking in the hushed, upholstered heart of the Victorian household; Wilkie...