In the introduction of the 1967 Simon and Schuster book club edition, Bradbury implies that the Nazi book burnings drove him to write the short story " The Fireman " which was the precursor along with the foundation for his novel Fahrenheit 451, stating, " It follows then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh.

Biondo became underboss, supposedly as a reward for the Anastasia killing.

In 1933, Anastasia was charged with killing a man who worked in a laundry ; again, there were no witness willing to testify.

Anastasia claimed that the Manganos wanted to kill him, but did not admit to killing them.

By killing Anastasia, Profaci was eliminating an ally and gaining a potential enemy in Gambino.

No one was ever charged in the Anastasia killing, and there is an alternative theory that gunmen from the Patriarca crime family of New England performed the hit.

For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.

Although wanted by the sheriff for killing an old man named Asher Jones, the warrant for his arrest had never been served.

An hour later we were back in my unpadded pad, killing what had been left of the second pint.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

According to the report, the bunyip had been speared after killing an Aboriginal man.

Macbeth had already seen a hallucination before killing Duncan: a knife hovering in the air.

The NDH had a program, formulated by Mile Budak, to purge Croatia of Serbs, by " killing one third, expelling the other third and assimilating the remaining third ".

Under Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 34 ), troops of the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sacked Papal Rome in 1527, “ raping, killing, burning, stealing, the like had not been seen since the Vandals ”.

The Medes, Persians, Chaldean ruled Babylonians, together with the Scythians and Cimmerians attacked Assyria in 616 BC, and by 612 BC, after five years of bitter fighting, the alliance had sacked Nineveh, killing Sin-shar-ishkun in the process.

Some years later he had confessed to the crime, and was convicted of perjury, but was unable to be retried for the killing itself.

For example, Psalm 34 is attributed to David on the occasion of his escape from the Abimelech ( king ) Achish by pretending to be insane-according to the narrative in 1 Samuel 21, instead of killing the man who had exacted so many casualties from him, Abimelech allows David to depart, exclaiming, " Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me?

Afterwards, Lieberman wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, " killing me softly with his blues ".

While on his way, Elijah meets Obadiah, the head of Ahab's household, who had hidden a hundred prophets of the God of Israel when Ahab and Jezebel had been killing them.

The title was not exactly hereditary but self proclaimed by those who had, wholly or partially, united the Christian northern part of the Iberian peninsula, often at the expense of killing rival siblings.

Atahualpa may actually be considered a usurper as he had achieved power by killing his half-brother and he did not perform the required coronation with the imperial crown mascaipacha by the Huillaq Uma ( high priest ).

Heracles ' human stepfather Amphitryon was also a grandson of Perseus, and since Amphitryon's father ( Alcaeus ) was older than Eurystheus ' father ( Sthenelus ), he might have received the kingdom, but Sthenelus had banished Amphitryon for accidentally killing ( a familiar mytheme ) the eldest son in the family ( Electryon ).

According to the Toba catastrophe theory to which some anthropologists and archeologists subscribe, the supereruption of Lake Toba on Sumatra island in Indonesia roughly 70, 000 years ago had global consequences, killing most humans then alive and creating a population bottleneck that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today.

Not all of those executed were leaders: Willie Pearse described himself as " a personal attaché to my brother, Patrick Pearse "; John MacBride had not even been aware of the Rising until it began, but had fought against the British in the Boer War fifteen years before ; Thomas Kent did not come out at all — he was executed for the killing of a police officer during the raid on his house the week after the Rising.

Ethologist Dr. Valerius Geist of the University of Calgary, Alberta wrote that Fenrir's maiming and ultimate killing of Odin, who had previously nurtured him, was likely based on true experiences of wolf-behaviour, seeing as wolves are genetically encoded to rise up the pack hierarchy and have on occasion been recorded to rebel against and kill their parents.

With Stilicho ’ s fall, Olympius moved against all of his former father-in-law ’ s allies, killing and torturing key individuals and ordering the confiscation of the property of anyone who had borne any office while Stilicho was in command.

For over a decade the PA has violated Palestinian human rights and civil liberties by routinely killing civilians — including collaborators, demonstrators, journalists, and others — without charge or fair trial.

For Cochise, the Americans held nothing sacred and had violated the rules of war by capturing and killing Mangas Coloradas during a parley session.

The expedition was mounted to avenge the killing by the Binis of an official British delegation that had violated their customs earlier in 1896.

" After Tillman ’ s death, Army commanders violated many of their own rules, not to mention elementary standards of decency, to turn the killing into a propaganda coup for the American side ," Filkins wrote.

Projectra subsequently killed Nemesis Kid in revenge, claiming royal privilege to do so even though it violated the Legion's code against killing.

Descending from his chariot to remove the wheel, he requested Arjuna to wait, as the etiquette of battle allowed ; but Krishna told Arjuna that Karna has no right to refer to etiquette at this point, having violated those same rules himself when killing Abhimanyu, participating in the laksha-griha conspiracy, assisting Duryodhan in the game of dice and insulting Draupadi in the Hastinapur court.

Liberal activist and former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark alleged that these attacks violated the Third Geneva Convention, common article 3, which outlaws the killing of soldiers who " are out of combat.

This act violated the local tradition of not killing any animals in the precincts of the sacred lake.

For over a decade the PA has violated Palestinian human rights and civil liberties by routinely killing civilians — including collaborators, demonstrators, journalists, and others — without charge or fair trial.

Two other men, Ernesto Diotallevi ( purportedly one of the leaders of the Banda della Magliana, a Roman Mafia-like organization ) and former Mafia member turned informer Francesco Di Carlo, were also alleged to be involved in the killing.

Katz said it was " probably true " that the Mafia had carried out the killing but that the gangsters suspected of the crime were either dead or missing.

" Extrajudicial killings " are the illegal killing of leading political, trades union, dissidents, and social figures by either the state government, state authorities like the armed forces and police ( as in Liberia under Charles G. Taylor ), or criminal outfits such as the Italian Mafia.

Another tragedy in Francis ' life was the killing of her brother George Franconero, Jr. ( with whom she was very close ) by Mafia hitmen in 1981.

Meyer recruited the people who planned and carried out the killing, including David Phillips, Frank Sturgis, David Morales, William Harvey, a French gunman, and Lucien Sarti, who worked for the Mafia.

The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as Irish fraternal twins, Connor and Murphy McManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defense.

In September 1931, between the killing of young Vengalli and his acquittal for that death, Coll was hired by Salvatore Maranzano, who had recently crowned himself the Mafia boss of all bosses in New York City, to murder his right-hand man, Charles " Lucky " Luciano.

Barry Muldanno: Mafia member who is accused of killing a senator.

The alleged negotiations between Dell ’ Utri and the Mafia followed an earlier attempt with Vito Ciancimino, the local political link for the Corleonesi clan, who supposedly had contacted government officials after the killing of Falcone to negotiate a stop to the killing spree.

Riina and various other Mafia bosses, such as Benedetto Santapaola, were subsequently convicted for ordering the killing.

The Mexican Mafia's quest for complete control alienated many other Mexican-American inmates who were fed up with Mexican Mafia stabbing, killing, and stealing their watches, rings, cigarettes and anything else of value.

The Borelli hit was significant for Massino " making his bones " – proving his loyalty to the Mafia by killing on its behalf – putting him close to becoming a made man, a full member, in the Bonanno family.

* The movie The Boondock Saints, about fraternal twins, Connor and Murphy MacManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defense, also takes place in South Boston.

Bounty hunting has of course led Rally to making many enemies, most notably Gray, the leader of gangsters whose use of armaments, including bombs, have likened them to terrorists ; and Goldie Musou, a leading figure in the Mafia who uses drugs to manipulate people to the point that they can be brainwashed into killing their nearest and dearest.

It figured prominently in the city's first known Mafia hit in Manhattan, the 1888 killing of Antonio Flaccomio, when it was La Triniria Italian Restaurant.

Provenzano participated in the Viale Lazio massacre on December 10, 1969: the killing of Michele Cavataio for his role in the First Mafia War.

Michael persuades Sonny to allow him to avenge their father by killing Sollozzo and McCluskey himself, arguing that no one would suspect him due to his longtime non-involvement in Mafia business.

Additionally, despite his violent streak, Sonny is leery of killing a police officer, as it has long been a hard and fast rule in the American Mafia that police and other law enforcement officials are not to be harmed.

Pérez framed four members of the Temple Street gang as being associated with killing Mexican Mafia member Miguel " Lizard " Malfavon.

Preferring the freelance life, Black sought to prevent the restoration of the Ninja Mafia by killing Sam.

Vladimir laughs saying the target is yourself, Dante asks since whenever did he play fair, Vladimir then tells Dante that he killed his mother, Dante says killing him will make it more fun, Vladimir says they both know revenge is a pointless exercise and will not make them better but it will make them feel more empty, he then talks about the pistol saying it used to belong to his grandfather Kirill Markov who made the Markoves the most powerful Mafia clan in the empire and was rumored to be the then tsarina's lover and assassin, he then talks about his farther who made the Markovs the legitimate and noble house he also says that he can't let him marry his daughter.

Afterwards, a vengeful Bullock reveals Rich's location to the Mafia, thereby indirectly killing the shooter.