Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this was not all. The General began to treat with the Opposition, explicitly the Seiyu-Honto Party, which, as an indirect result of the murder of Premiar Hara in 1921, split from the Seiyukai in January, 1924. The significance of this last move, coming as it does on top of the others, was that it would, if successful, give General Tanaka no less than 250 seats, or an absolute majority of the House of Representatives. It was therefore argued, as the move seemed likely to succeed, that the days of the Kato Cabinet are numbered, although doubtless it will remain...
Following Delaware's enthusiastic retention of her whipping posts (TIME, Apr. 6) a bill was introduced into the Michigan Legislature authorizing ten lashes a year for five years on all males convicted of murder and robbery while armed. Last week, it passed the Senate...
...This-be fearfully o'ertrip the dew . . . In such a night stood Dido with a willow in her hand . . . . In such a night . . . . I'd mortgage my immortal soul to be free in such a night. Yet in such a night to be compelled to study! Ugh!" With murder in his heart he turns his back upon the moon, for that way madness lies: And back he goes to juggle dead men's thoughts deep dug from books in such a night...
...punishment on the barbarous civilization which requires an eye for an eye and a death for a death. Metzdorf traced the evolution of punishment from the days when death was administered for all crimes to the present, when it is imposed for only three. He dwelt on these three, murder, treason and rape, with great forces showing how it is merely vengeance which calls for the death of the offender...
...Pennsylvania team was composed of William MeCahan, H. T. Inman, and Harold Bean. Their defense of the death penalty rested on the impossibility of returning criminals who are guilty of rape, treason, or murder in the first degree...