She had no way of knowing in advance whether an opportunity for murder existed.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

Instead, murder is treated as a civil crime and is covered by the law of retaliation, whereby the relatives of the victim decide whether the offender is punished with death by the authorities or made to pay diyah as compensation.

For example, in a discussion of euthanasia presented in 2003 by the European Association of Palliative Care ( EPAC ) Ethics Task Force, the authors offered: " Medicalized killing of a person without the person's consent, whether nonvoluntary ( where the person in unable to consent ) or involuntary ( against the person's will ) is not euthanasia: it is murder.

The Northern Territory has allowed majority verdicts of 10: 2, 10: 1 and 9: 1 since 1963 and does not discriminate between cases whether the charge is murder or not.

Archaeologists John Hodgson and Mark Brennand suggest that bog bodies may have been related to religious practice, although there is division in the academic community over this issue and in the case of Lindow Man, whether the killing was murder or ritualistic is still debated.

Joy said, " The jury really is still out on these bodies, whether they were aristocrats, priests, criminals, outsiders, whether they went willingly to their deaths or whether they were executed – but Lindow was a very remote place in those days, an unlikely place for an ambush or a murder ".

* July 22 – News of the World urges its readers to sign a petition for Sarah's Law, new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne, which would give parents the right to know whether a convicted paedophile was living in their area.

Dillinger was officially charged with Officer O ' Malley's murder although the identity of the actual killer was debatable, and it is in question whether Dillinger participated in the robbery at all.

Bartender Peter Hamkin, 23, was arrested, in Merseyside, in March 2003 on an extradition warrant heard at Bow Street Magistrates ' Court in London to establish whether he should be taken to Italy to face a murder charge.

Another example would be using scientific knowledge to invent a time machine, then going back in time and ( whether through murder or otherwise ) impeding a scientist's work that would eventually lead to the very information that you used to invent the time machine.

Under Article 32, protected persons have the right to protection from " murder, torture, corporal punishments, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments ... but also to any other measures of brutality whether applied by non-combatant or military agents ".

Since California considers “ all persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense … principals in any crime so committed ,” San Marin County Superior Judge Peter Allen Smith charged Davis with “ aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder in the death of Judge Harold Haley ” and issued a warrant for her arrest.

Richard Fuchs, author of An Unerring Fire, concludes, “ The affair at Fort Pillow was simply an orgy of death, a mass lynching to satisfy the basest of conduct – intentional murder – for the vilest of reasons – racism and personal enmity .” Andrew Ward downplays the controversy, “ Whether the massacre was premeditated or spontaneous does not address the more fundamental question of whether a massacre took place ... it certainly did, in every dictionary sense of the word .” John Cimprich states, “ The new paradigm in social attitudes and the fuller use of available evidence has favored a massacre interpretation ...

) and to prove whether death resulted from murder, suicide, or accidental death.

Most acts of mass murder end with the death of the perpetrator ( s ), whether by direct suicide or being killed by law enforcement.

Final closing arguments are presented, and the judge then instructs the jury to decide whether the boy is guilty of murder.

It is unknown whether charges of either filing false charges resulting in a murder or miscegenation were filed against Crow, but it is known by those aware of Richardson that he had lived in the area for a number of years with a fair reputation prior to the incident.

The United States Supreme Court considered, in the spring of 2012, the question of whether or not minors should be sentenced, at least automatically, to life without parole for any crime at all, including the only cases stated above in which it was at that time an option: first-degree murder with aggravating factors ( felony murder, where life without parole was then given as an option to juveniles, and where an adult in the same context could be charged with capital murder and given life or the death penalty ).

His deep remorse and guilt at having caused Crutchley to be executed leave doubt as to whether he would undertake further murder investigations-and in fact Sayers wrote no further Wimsey novels after this one.

During the last several decades the number of El Niño events increased, and the number of La Niña events decreased, although we may need to observe ENSO for much longer to detect robust changes The question is whether this is a random fluctuation or a normal instance of variation for that phenomenon or the result of global climate changes toward global warming.

"), Raphael (" God's medicine "), Ariel (" God's lion "), Daniel (" God's Judgement "), Israel (" one who has struggled with God "), Immanuel (" God is with us "), and Ishmael (" God Hears "/" God Listens ") it usually interpreted and translated as " God ", but it is not clear whether these " el " s refer to deity in general or to the god El in particular.

Some evidence does suggest that the Southern Oscillation is weakly correlated with changes in tornado activity, which vary by season and region, as well as whether the ENSO phase is that of El Niño or La Niña.

A feud within the union over whether to cease publishing El Machete or lose financial support for the mural projects left Siqueiros at the forefront, as Rivera left in protest of the decision to uphold politics over artistic opportunity.

It is unknown whether the flag was made to coincide with the densely populated province of El Conquistador or was created by natural and neutral causes.

Service in the Republic of Vietnam Conflict ( 2 March 1961 to 28 March 1973 ) combined with qualifying service in Laos ; Dominican Republic ; Korea on the DMZ ; El Salvador ; Grenada ; Joint Security Area, Panmunjom, Korea ; Panama ; Southwest Asia Conflict ; and Somalia, regardless of whether a Soldier has served one or multiple tours in any or all of these areas.

The directive was again altered in 1969 to specify that only one award of the Combat Medical Badge is authorized for service in Vietnam, Laos, the Dominican Republic, Korea ( subsequent to 4 January 1969 ), El Salvador, Grenada, Panama, Southwest Asia, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan regardless of whether an individual has served in one or more of these areas.

The National Organization of the Anvil or simply El Yunque ( in English: The Anvil ) is the name of a purported secret society of Mexican regional origin but alleged to now be a national political force and whose purpose, according to the reporter Álvaro Delgado, " is to defend the Catholic religion and fight the forces of Satan, whether through violence or murder " and establish the kingdom of God in the land that is subject to the Mexican Government to the mandates of the Roman Catholic Church through the infiltration of all its members at the highest levels of political power.

Asner also gave one press conference, not long before the show was cancelled, in which he was asked whether he would support free elections in El Salvador even if those elected were communists.

Other rights-of-way that could host a Red Line extension, whether subway or at-grade, include the Union Pacific's Alhambra Trench, the former Pacific Electric two-track right of way extending through the City Terrace area to El Monte and Covina, and the median of Huntington Drive, which also held a two-track Pacific Electric line extending as far as Azusa, until the 1950s, when it was removed.

The culture of the earliest Israelite settlements is Canaanite, their cult-objects are those of the Canaanite god El, the pottery remains in the local Canaanite tradition, and the alphabet used is early Canaanite, and almost the sole marker distinguishing the " Israelite " villages from Canaanite sites is an absence of pig bones, although whether even this is an ethnic marker or is due to other factors remains a matter of dispute.

It was unknown whether the new attraction would follow the Viper to El Toro footprints and utilize the Scream Machine's former station, or if a new station will be built for the new ride.

There was also much opposition from the growing community of El Paso as to whether an " Indian " city should be the county seat.

We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.

The question, then, is whether sufficient discrimination in the use of even non-violent means of coercion is to be found in the fact that such conduct demoralizes and overcomes the opponent while re-moralizing and re-establishing him.

Interviews with several church leaders have disclosed that this development has raised the question whether the Peace Corps will be able to prevent confusion for church and state over methods, means and goals.

In its simplest form, ANOVA provides a statistical test of whether or not the means of several groups are all equal, and therefore generalizes t-test to more than two groups.

" It is ambiguous whether he means the ambrosia itself is rosy-red, or if he is describing a rosy-red nectar Hermes drinks along with the ambrosia.

Violence in this context means any unlawful touching, though there is some debate over whether the touching must also be hostile.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

It is not clear whether Bacon means North or South America.

A deeper criticism of Green archaeoastronomy is that while it can answer whether there was likely to be an interest in astronomy in past times, its lack of a social element means that it struggles to answer why people would be interested, which makes it of limited use to people asking questions about the society of the past.

This means that the size, charge, and other chemical properties of the atoms and molecules attempting to cross it will determine whether they succeed in doing so.

For determining whether someone is intoxicated by alcohol by some means other than a blood-alcohol test, it is necessary to rule out other conditions such as hypoglycemia, stroke, usage of other intoxicants, mental health issues, and so on.

There is a dispute as to whether " brother " means someone who has the same father and mother, or a half-brother or cousin or more distant familial relationship.

Recently, Presbyterian and Reformed Churches have been considering whether to restore more frequent communion, including weekly communion in more churches, considering that infrequent communion was derived from a memorialist view of the Lord's Supper, rather than Calvin's view of the sacrament as a means of grace.

" Scholars are unsure whether it means the " one who gathers " or the " one among the gathering.

The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places.

This also means that small darknets where some users also have opennet connections are fully integrated into the whole Freenet network, allowing all users access to all content, whether they run opennet, darknet, or a hybrid of the two.

Notable among them are: ( 1 ) whether the word " eden " means a steppe or plain, or instead means " delight " or some similar term ; ( 2 ) whether the garden was in the east of Eden, or Eden itself was in the east, or whether " east " is not the correct word at all and the Hebrew means the garden was " of old "; ( 3 ) whether the river in Genesis 2: 10 " follows from " or " rises in " Eden, and the relationship, if any, of the four rivers to each other ; and ( 4 ) whether Cush, where one of the four rivers flows, means Ethiopia ( in Africa ) or Elam ( just east of Mesopotamia ).