Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordinance exempts the Jewish ritual slaughter techniques practiced by kosher butchers, because kosher slaughter methods are designed to prevent the animals' suffering while Santeria sacrifices are not. The issue of cruelty to animals, say the city officials, distinguishes rites deserving of protection from rites which the city can prohibit...
...those foolhardy enough to say his name five times. Now he's lusting to make a curious grad student (Virginia Madsen) his charnel bride. Borrowing from Stephen King and Freddy Krueger (while paving the way for a batch of Candyman sequels), director Bernard Rose deftly juggles sense and slaughter. This is clever, spooky stuff, with a lingering autumn chill...
...never heard the shot that killed him on Oct. 13, when a sniper opened fire from a 10th-floor window as Dantrell walked to school with his mother. The rest of Chicago did, and Dantrell's death sparked yet another agonizing debate over how to stop the inner-city slaughter...
...free exercise of religion -- or gratuitous slaughter...
First reports were that only eight prisoners had been killed Oct. 2 when police stormed Carandiru penitentiary in Brazil's commercial capital of Sao Paulo to quell a riot. But then surviving prisoners began telling investigators and grieving relatives tales of a savage slaughter: prisoners allegedly machine-gunned as they ran for their cells, others gunned down inside their cells by police shouting "Your time has come." Some of the injured were reportedly dragged to a prison workshop, where they were torn apart by attack dogs. Row on row of naked prisoners' bodies were lined up in a local morgue...