In July 2010, complaints were received following the storyline of Christian minister Lucas Johnson committing a number of murders that he believed was his duty to God, claiming that the storyline was offensive to Christians.

* Virginia classifies most felonies by number, ranging from Class 6 ( least severe: 1 to 5 years in prison or up to 12 months in jail ) through Class 2 ( 20 years to life, e. g., first-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding ) up to Class 1 ( life imprisonment or the death penalty, reserved for certain types of murders ).

The gun crime rate rose between 1997 and 2004 but has since slightly receded, while the number of murders from gun crime has largely remained static over the past decade.

The number of reported murders rose 80 % from 136 in 2000 to 245 in 2001.

A majority of the murders were politically motivated, though a number of assassinations of random police and carabinieri officers took place, as well as a number of murders occurring during criminal ventures such as bank robberies and kidnappings.

A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.

Averill, who was jailed for life after committing two murders, was not recaptured, and was instead given amnesty in early 2001 when he was one of a number of republican escapees to present themselves to the authorities in a two-week period.

The police and the Waterfront Crime Commission know that Friendly is behind a number of murders, but witnesses play " D and D " (" deaf and dumb "), accepting their subservient position rather than risk the danger and shame of informing.

Gull has a number of transcendent experiences in the course of the murders, culminating with a vivid vision of what London will be like a century after the last murder.

The number of murders and assaults perpetrated upon Negroes is very great ; we can form only an approximative estimate of what is going on in those parts of the South which are not closely garrisoned, and from which no regular reports are received, by what occurs under the very eyes of our military authorities.

He was on Interpol's most wanted list in the 1970s and 1980s for robberies and murders committed in a number of European countries and was later indicted by the UN for crimes against humanity.

The IRA ( Irish Republican Army ) was responsible for an enormous number of murders, bombings, shootings and incendiary fires.

Mass murderers are different from spree killers, who kill at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders and are not defined by the number of victims, and serial killers, who may kill large numbers of people over long periods of time.

Martin Dillon's own investigations suggest that a number of other individuals ( whom he was unable to name for legal reasons ) escaped prosecution for participation in the crimes of the Butchers and that the gang were responsible for a total of at least 30 murders.

" Lenny Murphy ( master butcher ) has been responsible for the horrific murders of over 20 innocent Nationalists in the Belfast area and a number of Protestants.

The IRA has been aware for some time that since his release recently from prison, Murphy was attempting to re-establish a similar murder gang to that which he led in the mid-1970s and, in fact, he was responsible for a number of the recent sectarian murders in the Belfast area.

A number of robberies and murders were accounted to this gang.

The number of lynchings peaked at the end of the 19th century, but these kinds of murders continued into the 20th century.

The number of murders and homicides was 1.

Scripts tackled a number of topics, ranging from the thrilling ( murders, missing persons and armed robbery ) to the mundane ( check fraud and shoplifting ), yet " Dragnet " made them all interesting due to fast-moving plots and behind-the-scenes realism.

The number of murders and homicides was 0.

A number of criminal proceedings against Patrick have resulted in felony convictions for kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment.

" John Lemprière in his Classical Dictionary ( 1827 ) wrote, " Some suppose that the Sirens were a number of lascivious women in Sicily, who prostituted themselves to strangers, and made them forget their pursuits while drowned in unlawful pleasures.

"... base tenements and houses of unlawful and disorderly resort ' and the ' great number of dissolute, loose, and insolent people harboured in such and the like noisome and disorderly houses, as namely poor cottages, and habitations of beggars and people without trade, stables, inns, alehouses, taverns, garden-houses converted to dwellings, ordinaries, dicing houses, bowling alleys, and brothel houses.

Under the act it is unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person by evicting them or subjecting them to other detriment unless justified under the limited number of justifications set out in the act.

Although it was a non-military organisation, Saor Éire was declared unlawful, along with the IRA, Cumann na mBan and nine other bodies, while MacBride became public enemy number one of the State security services.

Permits must be obtained to hold election meetings and display posters and banners, and a number of acts are unlawful, including bribery, dissuading electors from voting, making false statements about candidates, treating and undue influence.

Its first section makes it unlawful, among other things, for a railroad company engaged in interstate commerce to run any train without having a sufficient number of the cars so equipped with train brakes ( such as air brakes ) that the engineer on the locomotive can control the speed of the train without requiring brakemen to use a hand brake for that purpose.

More recently, the United States Supreme Court has narrowed the category of restraints deemed unlawful per se, thereby subjecting a greater number of restraints to fact-based rule of reason analysis.

However, citing a number of relevant business and property law cases, he concluded that the passage of the revised Act was not " proper power " in this sense, and constituted unlawful interference with the freedom of both schools and families.

Trading while insolvent is unlawful in a number of legal systems, and may result in the directors becoming personally liable for a company's assets.

Although Polk protested the " arbitrary and unlawful order " to the Secretary of War and demanded a court of inquiry, he was not restored to his position and Davis once again retained Bragg in army command, despite the protestations of a number of his subordinate generals.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.

Recent reports highlight a number of reprisal killings of survivors for giving evidence at Gacaca.

In early 2000, an LVF-UVF feud began and there were a number of tit-for-tat killings.

In an act of retaliation for the killings on Bloody Sunday, a number of Polish civilians were executed by German military units of the Einsatzgruppen, Waffen SS, and Wehrmacht.

A number of women claimed to be her, offering varying stories as to how she had survived the killings of the rest of the family.

Indeed, the number of killings in Northern Ireland had decreased from 300 per year during the period between 1973 and 1976 to just under 100 in the years 1977 – 1981.

A noted Guatemalan sociologist estimated the number of government killings between 1966 and 1974 at approximately 5, 250 a year ( for a total death toll of approximately 42, 000 during the presidencies of Julio César Méndez Montenegro and Carlos Arana Osorio ).

* Based on Yniguez-church's count, the number of victims of extrajudicial killings has reached 778, while survivors of " political assassinations ," was pegged at 370.

During the mass killings by the government, a disproportionate number of Chams were killed compared with ethnic Khmers.

There was also widespread theft, vandalism, looting and destruction of property, and a significant number of atrocities, killings and sexual violence were reported.

It came from the graphic novel Brought to Light by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz, in which the CIA measures its killings through state-sponsored terrorism by the equivalent number of 50-gallon swimming pools filled with human blood.

Their victims were estimated to range in number from 370 to about 600 persons executed ; most sources list 590 proven killings.

Although the United States certainly has an unusually high number of killings of children by other children, it is most often the case that the perpetrators and victims are teenagers, rather than young children.

The mass killings immediately created a large number of enemies, both Pākehā and Māori.

To explain the difference in the number of killings and massacres, Morris speculates that " his was probably due to the circumstance that the victorious Israelis captured some four hundred Arab villages and towns during April – November 1948, whereas the Palestinian Arabs and the Arab Liberation Army failed to take any settlements and the Arab armies that invaded in mid-May overran fewer than a dozen Jewish settlements ".

At the height of the bloodshed under Ríos Montt, reports put the number of killings and disappearances at more than 3, 000 per month.

There was a number of tit-for-tat killings in a subsequent feud until a truce was agreed in 1977.

However, there were a record number of gun killings in Ireland in 2006 ( 25 in total )., including five murders in six days in December.

In 1940, Reles was implicated in a number of killings.

Pilots decried the large number of civilian casualties caused by Israel's targeted killings as violating the military's ethics code.

Supporters of the ousted Gamsakhurdia were vigorously targeted, especially in the pro-Gamsakhurdia region of Samegrelo in western Georgia, where the Mkhedrioni were accused of carrying out a number of extrajudicial killings.

A number of group killings of Bosniaks occurred 1992 – 1995, with the most notable ones being the cases of Sjeverin ( near Priboj ), Bukovica ( near Pljevlja ), and Štrpci ( near Prijepolje ).

While nationalist authors have judged that their treatment of the Catholic community, including, " widespread harrassment and a significant number of reprisal killings " permanently alienated nationalists from the USC itself and more broadly, from the Northern Irish state.

A number of Croatian army officers ( such as general Ante Gotovina ) were indicted by the ICTY in the Hague for command responsibility for the killings committed by Croatian soldiers against the civilian Serb population.