Smith was accused of the brutal murder of three-year-old Myrtle Vance, the daughter of a policeman known for mistreating prisoners.

* In June 2003, because of new DNA evidence, Dennis Halstead, John Kogut and John Restivo won a re-trial on their murder conviction.

Later on, with the Nightwing miniseries ( September 1995 to December 1995, written by Dennis O ' Neil with Greg Land as artist ), Dick briefly considers retiring from being Nightwing forever before family papers uncovered by Alfred reveal a possible link between the murder of the Flying Graysons and the Crown Prince of Kravia.

* In the non-fiction book, The Innocent Man, John Grisham recounted the cases of Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz, who were assisted on appeal by the Innocence Project and freed by DNA evidence, after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of Debra Ann Carter.

He departed from the show in March 2006 when his character was jailed after confessing to ordering the murder of Dennis Rickman and carrying out the murder of Andy Hunter.

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Dennis marches him out into the woods at gunpoint and, following Dalton's admission that he ordered Den's murder in the 1980s, shoots him in the head.

Johnny is able to reach the phone and instead of calling for medical assistance, he contacts a henchman to murder Dennis as revenge for his beating.

* February 25 – Wichita, Kansas police apprehend the BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, 31 years after his first murder.

Andy was an employee of The Firm, of which he took control after the murder of Jack Dalton ( Hywel Bennett ) by Dennis Rickman ( Nigel Harman ).

Johnny confessed his murder to the police in March 2006, along with ordering the murder of Dennis Rickman.

Dennis ' abductor, revealed as his half-brother and Stephanie's long-lost son Chris ( Graham Harvey ), quickly abandoned his plan to hold Dennis to ransom when he learned Stephanie had been arrested for Jake's murder.

In 1987, Jurgens was convicted of third degree murder of Dennis.

However, there had been a gradual darkening of the tone of superhero comics for several years prior to " The Night Gwen Stacy Died ", including the death of her father in 1970's Amazing Spider-Man # 90, the murder of Aquaman's infant son at the hands of Black Manta in Adventure Comics # 452, and the beginning of the Dennis O ' Neil / Neal Adams tenure on Batman.

Dennis Broadway, a gangster student to whom he had given a failing grade threatens to murder him, writing the number 187 ( the police code for homicide ) on every page of one of Garfield's textbooks.

Film critic Dennis Schwartz called the film, " A low rent version of the film noir Laura ," and added, " It was a snappy film that makes the most of its murder investigation with insightful looks at the lives of those on the fringe associated with Hollywood.

Not long after moving into his new home, Rex began a new career as a crime solver when Major Dennis ' son Phillip was accused of murder and, when the police were unable to solve the crime, Rex succeeded in finding all the requisite clues to clear Phillip's name.

Lois Jurgens ( born 1925 ) was subject of one of the most unusual child murder cases in history in Minnesota.

Storylines throughout the decade included: a mystery poison-pen letter received by Elsie Tanner, the 1962 marriage of Ken Barlow and Valerie Tatlock, the death of Martha Longhurst in 1964, the birth of the Barlow twins in 1965, Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner as well as a train crashing from the viaduct ( both in 1967 ), the murder of Steve Tanner in 1968, and a coach crash in 1969.

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

* January 3 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim ( d. 1965 )

** The Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, suspending the death penalty for murder in the United Kingdom ; renewal of the Act in 1969 made the abolition permanent.

Robert Edward " Bob " Crane ( July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978 ) was an American actor and disc jockey, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971, and for his 1978 murder, which remains officially unsolved.

Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedy / Western film which tells the story of a woman who hires a famous gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the man she hires is not what she expected.

Belva Gaertner ( September 14, 1884-May 14, 1965 ), acquitted in a 1924 murder trial, inspired the fictional character Velma Kelly / Velma Wall created by Maurine Dallas Watkins, who reported on her trial for the Chicago Tribune.

Stewart was active on the Home Office list between 1950 and the suspension of capital punishment for murder in 1965, carrying out 21 executions as assistant.

England: David Chapman, who was sentenced to hang in November 1965 for the murder of a swimming pool nightwatchman in Scarborough.

Since the death penalty's abolition in 1965, there have been continued public and media calls for its reintroduction, particularly prompted by high profile murder cases.

At the same time, there have been a number of miscarriages of justice since 1965 where someone convicted of murder has later had their conviction quashed on appeal and been released from prison, strengthening the argument of those who oppose the death penalty's reintroduction.

This in part reflects the abolition in 1965 of capital punishment for murder.

* August-Emanuel Jaques, murder victim ( b. 1965 )

The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice, Millett's semi-fictional book about the 1965 torture and murder of American teenager Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski, drew controversy for her defense of the crime.

The death penalty had already been abolished for all civilian offences, including murder ( Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 ) and treason ( Crime and Disorder Act 1998 ), but remained in force for certain military offences ( although these provisions had not been used for several decades ).

In 1965 Drummond was convicted of the murder of his longtime girlfriend, Anita " Marguerita " Mahfood, an exotic rhumba dancer and singer, on 1 January 1965.

The first of the new breed of nonfiction writers to receive wide notoriety was Truman Capote, whose 1965 best-seller, In Cold Blood, was a detailed narrative of the murder of a Kansas farm family.

Dhananjoy Chatterjee ( August 14, 1965 in Kuludihi, West Bengal, India – August 14, 2004 at Alipore Central Jail in Calcutta, India ) was a security guard who was executed by hanging for the murder ( following a rape ) of 14-year-old Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 at her apartment residence in Bhowanipur.

* Macdonald Hastings-The Other Mr Churchill: A lifetime of shooting and murder ( 1963 ) 1965 1st US edition Dodd, Mead & Company., New York, ( 1 Jan 1965 )

Robert Baltovich ( born July 17, 1965 ) is a Canadian man who was wrongly convicted in 1992 of the murder of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Bain, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.

The case was the most prominent of a series of miscarriages which ultimately led to the abolition of capital punishment for murder in England, Wales and Scotland in 1965.

On 10 February 1965 the force saw its first, and to date only, murder of an officer.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

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.

It was not murder at all.

), had listed himself for Mormon Beard roles at the instigation of his fourth murder victim who had said: `` With your beard, dear, you ought to be in movies ''!!

For indeed it seemed incredible that anyone could go on committing murder for ten years and not get caught at it, even in Hollywood.

Jaggers' iron control over her ( `` she would remove her hands from any dish she put before him, hesitatingly, as if she dreaded his calling her back ) '' ) rests on his having once got her acquitted of a murder charge by cleverly contriving her sleeves at the trial to conceal her strength and by passing off the lacerations on the backs of her hands as the scratches of brambles rather than of human fingernails.

George poised with the tack hammer, the homely, everyday atmosphere, all denied an attempt at murder.

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.

Sentenced to prison for murder, Alex gets a job at the Wing chapel playing religious music on the stereo before and after services as well as during the singing of hymns.

He suffers from sea sickness, and in Death in the Clouds believes that his air sickness prevents him from being more alert at the time of the murder.

Theodosius was threatened with excommunication by Ambrose for the massacre of 7, 000 persons at Thessalonica in 390, after the murder of the Roman governor there by rioters.

After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

* 1976 – In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.

Professor Henry Higgins sings, " Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.

The group was on the verge of signing with Warner Bros. Records at the time of La Rock's murder.

' There was a knight of Saint Omer's, retained in wages with the king of England, called sir Denis Morbeke, who had served the Englishmen five year before, because in his youth he had forfeited the realm of France for a murder that he did at Saint-Omer's.

In 1437, King James I of Scotland was approached by an Irish seer who was later identified as a banshee who foretold his murder at the instigation of the Earl of Atholl.

Local labourer Matthew Weeks was accused of the murder and at noon on 12 August 1844 he was led from Bodmin Gaol and hanged.