Word: murderously
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Like his opponent, Harshbarger said he supports abortion rights, but the two split on other criminal justice issues. Harshbarger opposed the death penalty, citing his upbringing as the son of a minister. Sawyer favored capital punishment for those who commit first-degree murder. He also said he would support the death penalty for "major drug kingpins...
...Levy added, "It shouldn't change anyone's opinion about his views. It's really sad. This is the way people are dealing with these problems. You get his kind of hatred, and on the other hand, people answer that with murder. I hope this doesn't give more legitimacy to his views...
...Ellis, 26, author of Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction, emerges from the 1980s grade-B romance with uninhibited capitalism, shuts his eyes and imagines a childish horror fantasy about a Wall Street yuppie whose tastes run from nouvelle cuisine to the most appalling acts of torture, murder and dismemberment ever described in a book targeted for the best-seller lists...
...were different. She, the depressive Newport heiress, with a frail hauteur in her demeanor and a well-stocked pharmacy in her purse. He, Danish-born and smartly foppish, living off her wealth and at her whim. Not Eurotrash exactly -- aristotrash. When in 1981 Claus was accused of attempting to murder Sunny with insulin injections, leaving her in a coma from which she has not emerged, the case yielded reams of tabloid tattle. Twice he was tried in Rhode Island courts: first found guilty and then, when he was defended by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and won a new trial...
...what could be the beginning of a long-overdue reckoning with the crimes of ex-Communists, two Polish secret-police generals were arrested in Warsaw last week and charged with "directing" the October 1984 murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a popular and fervent supporter of the then banned Solidarity labor union. Though four others have been convicted in the case, the two generals are the highest-ranking officials implicated in the killing...