Word: murderes
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Cases don't come any harder than Poncelet's. His drifting life reaches its nadir when, with another man, he commits a lovers' lane rape and double murder, steadfastly (and unpersuasively) insisting that he did not commit the killings. There is about him an inchoate rage tempered, if that's the word we want, by self-pity and a certain raw intelligence, which has led him to jailhouse lawyering and several stays of execution. It is largely the latter quality, and the challenging seductiveness of his manner, that leads Sister Helen to see in him the possibilities of redemption...
...arranged in the shape of a star on the forest floor, then ignited the bodies before turning their revolvers on themselves. The charred corpses were discovered on Dec. 23 outside the village of St.-Pierre-de-Cherennes in southeastern France. The killings were a grisly replay of the murder-suicides that claimed the lives of 53 Solar Temple members in Switzerland and Quebec last year...
...more statistic: in the past three years alone, the structure of Nebraska football has housed six players who have faced charges for crimes ranging from sexual assault to attempted second-degree murder. None of them has served time in jail...
...young people, civilians, the elderly." Ayyash has topped the Israeli police most wanted list following a wave of suicide bombings, the latest occurring in Tel Aviv on October 19, 1994 killing 22 people. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank that after Palestinian security forces confirmed the murder on the radio, Hamas activists began chanting anti-Israeli slogans and pledged a revenge killing. "Yassir Arafat reportedly summoned high ranking officials to discuss the consequences of the killing and may cancel his upcoming trip to Jerusalem as a result," Hamad says. The Israeli government has advised Israelis...
...gave Arafat until January 12 to give his deposition, and said the PLO could be held liable if he does not cooperate in the suit. A New Jersey travel agency filed the lawsuit, which blames a PLO faction for the 3-day hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound elderly man, whom terrorists threw into the sea off Egypt. PLO lawyers said that an Arafat deposition was impossible because of "constant demands" on his time during the ongoing peace process, and denied responsibility for the faction that carried out the attack...