His character is inspired by the revolutionary Sergey Nechayev, whose trial for murdering a former follower inspired the depiction of Shatov's murder and Dostoyevsky's broader theme of young radicals turning violently on each other.

* April 14 – In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men in Lansing, Kansas.

Although the Enforcement Act had been designed primarily to allow Federal enforcement and prosecution of actions of the Ku Klux Klan and other secret vigilante groups in preventing blacks from voting and murdering them, the Cruikshank court held that the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses applied only to state action, and not to actions of individuals: " The fourteenth amendment prohibits a State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ; but this adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another.

Rideau was incarcerated in Louisiana State Penitentiary ( better known as Angola Prison ) from 1961 to 2000, convicted in three successive trials by all-white, all-male juries of murdering bank teller Julia Ferguson in the aftermath of a bank robbery.

The charges were: intentionally " murdering with a lethal substance ( Article 371 of the Penal Code ), randomly killing with the aim of attacking the security of the State ( Article 202 ), and causing an epidemic through spreading harmful virus, leading to the death of persons ( Article 305 ).

In 2012, Ivan Milat's great nephew Matthew Milat and Cohen Klein ( both aged 19 at the time of their sentencing ) were sentenced to 43 years and 32 years in prison respectively, for murdering David Auchterlonie with an axe in the Belanglo State Forest.

On December 9, 1993, the Supreme Court of Transnistria found him guilty of a number of offences defined in the Criminal Code of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, including incitement to commit an offence against national security, organisation of activities with the aim of committing extremely dangerous offences against the State, murdering a representative of the State with the aim of spreading terror, premeditated murder, unlawfully requisitioning means of transport, deliberate destruction of another's property and illegal or unauthorised use of ammunition or explosives.

On 9 December 1993, the Supreme Court of the PMR found Ivanţoc guilty of murdering a representative of the State with the aim of spreading terror, unauthorised use and theft of ammunition or explosives, and assault.

Annie Walsh from Limerick, who was found guilty of murdering her husband was the only woman to be hanged by the Irish Free State.

She walks away, the gun still pointed at her, and explains that while the first murder carried extenuating circumstances of his own mental state, murdering her as well surely would result in the electric chair.

However, the judge's angry outburst at sentencing prompts the slime sample presented as evidence to release the ghosts of two murdering brothers whom the judge had previously sentenced to death by electric chair.

* 1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son.

Shortly after Mahfouz joined 80 other intellectuals in declaring that " no blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer.

* March 9 – After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son.

It has been described as a low-budget British " semicomedy " about a writer who becomes obsessed with murder and murdering.

* Michael Peterson ( author ) ( born 1943 ), North Carolina writer convicted of murdering his wife

Former All My Children head writer Megan McTavish created the tale, tentatively titled the Satin Slayer storyline, which centered around a vicious serial killer murdering the women of a cosmetics company called Fusion.

One interpretation of his motive is that it was in revenge for Achilles ' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.

Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ( his own mother ), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes ( English: the Furies ), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds ' noses and drove them to insanity.

* Abantidas, the son of Paseas, becomes tyrant of the Greek city-state of Sicyon after murdering Cleinias.

He is also accused of murdering his first wife and son so that he could marry the wealthy and beautiful Aurelia Orestilla, daughter of the Consul of 71 BC, Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes.

Following the advice of his son Telemachus, Odysseus spares Medon ’ s life after murdering the suitors of Penelope who had been plaguing his halls in his homeland of Ithaca.

The series, which are set in a Classical interior, shows the story of the fashionable marriage of the son of bankrupt Earl Squanderfield to the daughter of a wealthy but miserly city merchant, starting with the signing of a marriage contract at the Earl's mansion and ending with the murder of the son by his wife's lover and the suicide of the daughter after her lover is hanged at Tyburn for murdering her husband.

* Steve Nunn, former state representative ; son of Louie Nunn ; pled guilty to murdering his former fiancée

He was accused of murdering his son, supposedly in a rage over his son's plan to convert to Catholicism.

Many years later, after conflict with King John, William de Braose's wife Maud de Braose personally and directly accused the King of murdering Arthur, which resulted in Maud and her eldest son, also William, being imprisoned and allegedly starved to death in Corfe Castle in Dorset.

saving Connor and relieving Angel of the responsibility of murdering his son-and in doing so creates the situation in which the baby could be kidnapped, Angel loses his son and Wesley has his throat slit for the trouble.

The idea of King Philip confining and murdering his own son later played a minor role in establishing the anti-Spanish Black Legend.

Darlie Lynn Routier ( born January 4, 1970 ) is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted of murdering her young son Damon, and is currently on death row awaiting execution by lethal injection.

In 1859, Stanton was the defense attorney in the sensational trial of Daniel E. Sickles, a politician and later a Union general, who was tried on a charge of murdering his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key II ( son of Francis Scott Key ), but was acquitted after Stanton invoked one of the first uses of the insanity defense in U. S. history.

He was the son of Sera, the king of Greece, and fled his homeland after murdering his father and mother.

A cave near here known as The Cave of Munits is the believed home of a mythical Chumash shaman, Munits, who was killed by an eagle after murdering the son of a Chumash chief.

Nikolai's two nephews, the Razumovsky brothers, had planned to inherit their uncle's vast fortune, and upon hearing that they were to lose it all to the son of serf they contemplated murdering the infant.

Pettigrew seeks revenge by having John thrown in prison for murdering his ( missing ) son.

In 2003 he starred in a ITV mini-seires Unconditional Love ( TV drama ), In 2003 he starred in the BBC TV series Trust and in 2005, Green co-starred in the mini-series Like Father Like Son, as Dominic Milne, a teacher whose girlfriend's son is accused of murdering a school student.

Laura was arrested for murdering Frank's son Damian, a crime she was innocent of.

After his wife ( Tunney ) and son ( Bryan ) are badly injured in a car accident, he decides to take revenge by murdering three of the four paparazzi photographers who were responsible for the accident ( Baldwin, Hollander, Gage ), then pinning the murders on the ringleader ( Sizemore ).

Scott Lee Peterson ( born October 24, 1972 ) is an American convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son in Modesto, California, in 2002.

* 1934 – Sergey Kirov, Russian revolutionary ( b. 1886 )

More importantly, Sergey Kirov, a Leningrad party leader, was emerging as popular leader of the moderates.

Sergey Kirov | Sergei Kirov, Leningrad party leader, and Stalin in 1934.

In 1934, Stalin used the murder of Sergey Kirov as a pretext to launch the Great Purge, in which about a million people perished.

Among other accusations, they were incriminated with the assassination of Sergey Kirov and plotting to kill Stalin.

In December 1934, it was renamed for the Soviet leader Sergey Kirov, who had been assassinated on December 1.

In March 1919 after a failed workers revolt against Bolshevik rule thousands of people were executed by the Cheka under orders from Sergey Kirov.

Further accusations, and hints of accusations, followed, including the suggestion that the murder of Sergey Kirov in 1934, the event that sparked of the Great Terror, could be included in the list of Stalin's crimes.

His actions resulted in Stalin's being re-elected as the General Secretary instead of Sergey Kirov.

Following the assassination of the Bolshevik revolutionary Sergey Kirov in 1934, the then Soviet Ballet, was renamed the Kirov Ballet a name which is most commonly used to identify the company to this day.

The districts are generally named for Sergey Kirov, a Soviet statesman.

Sergey Kirov, speaking at the Congress, proposed building the congress palace " on the sites of palaces once owned by bankers, landlords, and tsars.

Based on a synopsis created by Adrian Piotrovsky ( who first suggested the subject to Prokofiev ) and Sergey Radlov, the ballet in its original form was completed by Prokofiev in September 1935, on commission by the Kirov Ballet, since when he first presented the music to the Bolshoi Ballet that year, they claimed it was " undanceable ".

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In 1963, Pelše headed a commission nicknamed the " Pelše Commission ", which investigated the assassination of Sergey Kirov.

It was previously known as Kirovakan ( Armenian: Կիրովական, after Sergey Kirov ) during the Soviet era and as Karakilisa during the Tsarist period.

Kuybyshev died in Moscow on January 25, 1935 of heart failure, days after proposing an investigation of the Sergey Kirov case.

Children of the Arbat () is a novel by Anatoly Rybakov that recounts the era in the Soviet Union of the build-up to the ' Congress of the Victors ', the early years of the second Five Year Plan and the ( supposed ) circumstances of the murder of Sergey Kirov prior to the beginning of the Great Purge.

* Sergey Kirov ( 1886 – 1934 ), Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet communist

The novel incorporates real events ( the death of Sergey Kirov ) with a fictionalised rendering of life during the Siege of Leningrad.

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