The responsibility for scores of deaths, including the abduction and murder of Jesus Maria Galindez, a professor at Columbia University in New York, has been laid at his door.

Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 60, who has spent 25 years in the Dwight reformatory for women for the murder in 1935 of her son-in-law, Ervin Lang, then 28, appealed for a parole at a hearing yesterday before two Illinois pardon and parole board members, John M. Bookwalter and Joseph Carpentier.

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

The show has also been blamed for animal cruelty and the murder of a cat with fireworks.

The murder site now has a monument erected from public money and the grave is at Davidstow churchyard.

Scots common law covers matters including murder and theft, and has sources in custom, in legal writings and previous court decisions.

He also stated that French President Sarkozy is like any other European elite: he has profited through the murder, rape, and pillaging of those less fortunate and he refuses to allow equal opportunity for those men and women from Africa.

The Talmud states that the fetus is not yet a full human being until it has been born ( either the head or the body is mostly outside of the woman ), therefore killing a fetus is not murder, and abortion-in restricted circumstances-has always been legal under Jewish law.

Although " Oedipus's enquiry is based on supernatural, pre-rational methods that are evident in most narratives of crime until the development of Enlightenment thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries " it has " all of the central characteristics and formal elements of the detective story, including a mystery sur-rounding a murder, a closed circle of suspects, and the gradual uncovering of a hidden past.

The whodunit mystery is solved when the murderer himself confesses his crime, which in turn leads to another assignment in which Ja ' far has to find the culprit who instigated the murder within three days or else be executed.

The game has been heavily attacked by some critics, who allege that it promotes pornography and murder.

" Rummel created the term as an extended concept to include forms of government murder that are not covered by the term genocide, and it has become accepted among other scholars.

He has further stated: " I use the civil definition of murder, where someone can be guilty of murder if they are responsible in a reckless and wanton way for the loss of life, as in incarcerating people in camps where they may soon die of malnutrition, unattended disease, and forced labor, or deporting them into wastelands where they may die rapidly from exposure and disease.

In some parts of Europe and India, Datura has been a popular poison for suicide and murder.

Upon realizing that his daughter has fully allied herself with the murder suspect, her father chooses to resign his position as Chief Constable rather than arrest her for assisting Tisdall.

Elijah encounters Ahab again in, after Ahab has acquired possession of a vineyard by murder.

How could a worse choice be made for your honour than in such haste to marry such a subject, who besides other and notorious lacks, public fame has charged with the murder of your late husband, besides the touching of yourself also in some part, though we trust in that behalf falsely.

Vitagraph's thriller, The Mystery of Temple Court ( 1910 ) has low-key lighting for a scene of murder, and their Conscience ( 1912 ) shows low-key lighting done solely with artificial light for a scene of terror.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

One version has Claudius selected as Emperor by the conspirators, another chosen by Gallienus on his death bed ; the Historia Augusta was concerned to substantiate the descent of the Constantinian dynasty from Claudius, and this may explain its accounts which do not involve Claudius in the murder.

In Angela Carter's Wise Children, To be or not to be is reworked as a song and dance routine, and Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince has Oedipal themes and murder intertwined with a love affair between a Hamlet-obsessed writer, Bradley Pearson, and the daughter of his rival.

He admits to what he has done, in particular, to Roger O ' Neill's murder.

Bogart plays embittered writer Dixon Steele, who has a history of violence and becomes a suspect in a murder case at the same time that he falls in love with a failed actress, played by Gloria Grahame.

Oedipus kills King Laius in a dispute over which of them has the right of way, thereby fulfilling the prophecy that Oedipus is destined to murder his own father.

Androcles takes the Saint-Avit role and tries to murder Hercules, who ( unsurprisingly ) is able to resist Antinea's wiles and eventually saves the day.

The time would have been shortly after the murder of Mrs. Borden and they noticed nothing unusual in his behavior.

I would have been negligent and a goddam lousy cop to boot, if I'd sat around this station all night when somebody got away with murder in my district.

In February the murder of Patrice Lumumba, who had been kidnaped into Katanga and executed on order of Tshombe, again stirred the U.N. to action.

Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko's 2006 murder by radiation poisoning is thought to have been carried out with polonium-210, an alpha emitter.

Agamemnon's family history had been marred by rape, murder, incest, and treachery, consequences of the heinous crime perpetrated by his ancestor, Tantalus, and then of a curse placed upon Pelops, son of Tantalus, by Myrtilus, whom he had murdered.

Those who had been involved in the Shah Khalil Allah's murder were punished and the Persian king Fath Ali Shah increased Hasan Ali Shah's land holdings in the Mahallat region and gave him one of his daughters, Sarv-i Jahan Khanum, in marriage.

Henry Alford had been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in 1963.

Alford pled guilty to second-degree murder, and said he was doing so to avoid a death sentence if he had been convicted of first-degree murder after attempting to contest that charge.

He was such a favourite with the latter, that, when Greece was visited by a drought in consequence of a murder which had been committed, the oracle of Delphi declared that the calamity would not cease unless Aeacus prayed to the gods that it might.

There were allegations of defiling an altar, selling Church grain that had been meant to feed the poor for his own personal gain, and for suppressing dissent through violence and murder.

Moreover, several of the genre's pioneers have been linked with church burnings and murder.

This was confirmed in the case of R v Carroll, where the police found new evidence convincingly disproving Carroll's sworn alibi two decades after he had been acquitted of murder charges in the death of Ipswich child Deidre Kennedy, and successfully prosecuted him for perjury.

It opined that the Law Commission had been unduly cautious by limiting the scope to murder and that " the exceptions should [...] extend to other grave offences punishable with life and / or long terms of imprisonment as Parliament might specify.

In 1996 Weston had been acquitted of the murder of Vikki Thompson at Ascott-under-Wychwood on 12 August 1995, but following the discovery of compelling new evidence in 2009 — Thompson's blood on Weston's boots — he was arrested and tried for a second time.

To suggest the dynasty owed its accession to murder would have been less than sensitive.

Adams was serving a life sentence that had been commuted from a death sentence on a legal technicality for the 1976 murder of Robert Wood, a Dallas police officer.

Adams told Morris that he had been framed, and that David Harris, who was present at the time of the murder and was the principal witness for the prosecution, had in fact killed Wood.

Ten days later, on 17 October 1854, at the Eureka Hotel between 1, 000 and 10, 000 miners gathered to protest that James Bentley, the hotel proprietor and prime suspect in Scobie's murder, had been acquitted by a corrupt magistrate.