Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some leniency for Deaver in sentencing. "This defense has been frequently used and has almost never been successful," says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "It's a defense of the last resort." Explains Lawyer Michael Kennedy, who cited his client's drug dependency in unsuccessfully appealing for a new murder trial for Schoolmistress Jean Harris: "Juries tend to look at addiction as something for which you must bear the responsibility. Therefore they are disinclined to let people off the hook...
...Sanabria, the 32-year-old coordinator of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDH), was killed by two armed men in civilian clothes as he left his house on Monday to bring two of his five children to school. No group has claimed responsibility for the murder...
...novel has received critical acclaim for its intriguing plot, which traces two teenaged brothers from a broken home who steal food from a restaurant, escape a bloody brawl and witness a murder in one incredible night...
Volel became the second murder victim in Haiti's presidential race, the first to be held since three decades of Duvalier rule ended last year. In August, Louis Eugene Athis was hacked to death by peasants who had been wrongfully informed by local police that the candidate was a Communist. Though neither victim was a front runner in a field of more than 30 candidates, some observers suspected that the murders were an attempt by old-guard Duvalierists to hold on to power...
...interim autopsy report cited tranquilizers and sleeping pills as the cause of death, and press speculation ranged from suicide to murder. Barschel, once the rising star of Prime Minister Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats, resigned last month after a former campaign aide claimed that he had used political dirty tricks to sabotage a Social Democratic opponent in a recent election. Barschel died one day before he was to testify before a parliamentary panel looking into the charges of wrongdoing...