Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next comes a guillotine murder, followed in rapid succession by an icepick murder, an electrocution, and in the finale, two knifings. As the audience learns early in the show and suspects even earlier, the man responsible for all this mayhem is a crime reporter and biographer who, with an admirable collector's instinct, is creating his own Black Museum to surpass that of Scotland Yard...
...murder of John Guzman, 16, seventh teen-ager killed in street-gang violence in New York City in the past three months, fueled up already blazing feuds between Bronx street gangs. Two days after the killing, police headed off a massive outbreak of violence by nabbing ten Royal Knights allies who were waiting on a Bronx rooftop to ambush an oncoming invasion of the neighborhood by revenge-seeking Valiant Crowns. In the ambush arsenal: 20-gauge shotgun, .22-cal. rifle, two hunting knives, stacks of bricks, nine Molotov cocktails-gasoline-filled bottles with rag wicks, to be ignited just before...
...nine days the murder trial of Berlin-born Gunther Fritz Podola, 30, was postponed while a London jury considered a plea the like of which had never before been heard in an English court of law (TIME, Sept. 21). The plea: in "the very severe fright" caused by the violence of his arrest, Podola had lost his memory, and so was unfit to plead to the charge of shooting a London cop. Last week, after a procession of experts had offered conflicting medical opinion on whether Podola was, in fact, suffering from "hysterical amnesia," the jury finally decided that...
...unable to answer the charges." The jury spent only 38 minutes in arriving at a verdict of guilty. Covering his wig with the dread black cap, Judge Edmund Davies slowly told Podola: "You have been convicted on evidence of the most compelling character and certainty of the capital murder* of a police officer by shooting him down in the prime of his manhood. For that foul and terrible deed but one sentence is prescribed, and that I now pronounce...
...Under Britain's 1957 Homicide Act, the only murders for which the death penalty is prescribed or permitted are those committed 1) with firearms or explosives, 2) against police or prison officers, 3) in resisting arrest or escaping from custody, 4) in furtherance of theft, or 5) for murder committed a second or subsequent time...