Word: murderously
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...been remarkably lenient on family members who become mercy killers. Rudy Linares, a Chicago landscaper, held off hospital workers with a .357-cal. pistol while he unplugged his baby son's respirator. The 15- month-old boy died in his father's arms. Linares was charged with first- degree murder, but a Cook County grand jury refused to indict him. In fact, out of some 20 U.S. cases of "mercy killings" in the past 50 years, studied by Leonard Glantz of Boston University, only three defendants have been sentenced to jail...
...acknowledges that racially motivated crimeslike the alleged gang murder of a Black youth inBensonhurst last summer are indicative of seriousproblems, but he argues that race is a factor inonly a tiny minority of the city's violent crimes...
When one audience member suggested that the violence might be caused by needing money to buy the drugs, Koch said "You don't commit murder for10 bucks, you do it because your brain is swisscheese...
...killed Robert Ouko, and why? Thousands of students took to Nairobi ; streets last week, protesting the murder of Kenya's popular Foreign Minister. Ouko's charred and mutilated body was found on Feb. 16 in a field not far from his farm home in western Kenya, three days after he had mysteriously disappeared...
First, however, there are a few complications to sort out. On top of proving once again that he is one of the most gifted novelists of his generation, Amis demonstrates that he is also among the cleverest. He writes about a writer who is writing a murder story about a crime that has not yet happened but is being staged by the victim. The designation is used advisedly. Nicola Six may get her head bashed in at the end of the book, yet she remains a good candidate for the most willful and neutering female ever devised...