Word: murdered
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...ideas Allen likes to keep circling back upon is the heavily ironic notion that it is perfectly possible - literally - to get away with murder, totally unpunished, in the godless and amoral modern world. It is the theme of two of his best films, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point, and it is a central element in this movie. Like the protagonists of those earlier films, the brothers are not inherently evil people. They're just rather careless ones. Or perhaps one should say ungrounded. Terry is hard-working mechanic, rather decent at heart, but afflicted with addictions to gambling...
...innocent later. Some were exonerated and spared the death penalty, but many were not. I don't believe you would find a penal system that is any better than that in the U.S., but it is still far from perfect. The death penalty does not keep people from committing murder, and your article showed that it doesn't cost less than life imprisonment. It should be abolished. Sherry Weaver, ELKHART...
This perverse logic of promises and threats lies behind the observation on romance offered by George Bernard Shaw: "When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column...
...Julie Jensen testified in her husband's murder trial?even though she died in 1998. Mark Jensen is charged with having murdered her, but attorneys have only now been able to introduce key evidence from Julie?a letter she left with a neighbor about Mark's "suspicious behaviors" and her "fear for [her] early demise...
...zealously guarded the right of criminal defendants to confront their accusers in court. But new evidence rules adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004 and by Wisconsin's Supreme Court in 2006 are allowing Julie Jensen?and perhaps other, future murder victims?to take the stand from beyond the grave...