In the criminal law, murder is the crime where one human being causes the death of another human being, without lawful excuse, and with intent to kill or with an intent to cause grievous bodily harm (traditionally termed "malice aforethought") (see attempted murder where the mens rea (the Latin for "guilty mind") requirement is limited). In some common law jurisdictions, an accused is not guilty of murder if the victim lives for longer than a year and a day after the attack. This reflects the likelihood that, if the victim has ...

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Murder, Murder - Murder and other illegal killings, Murder - Mitigating circumstances, Murder - Country-specific murder law, Murder - United Kingdom, Murder - Canada, Murder - The United States, Murder - Germany, Murder - Switzerland, Murder - The Netherlands, Murder - Finland, Murder - Israel, Murder - Vikings 8th to 11th centuries, Murder - Other uses of the word, Murder - Murder demographics, Murder - Documentary Films

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Murder occurrences vary wildly among different countries and societies. In the Western world, murder rates in most countries have declined significantly during 20th century and are now between 1-3 cases per 100,000 people per year. Murder rates of Japan and Iceland are among the lowest in the world, around 0.5; rate of United States is highest among all developed countries, at 5.5 (2004). On the other hand, developing countries often have rates ...

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She was murdered in mysterious circumstances in March 1984; she had been stabbed several times after an apparent break-in at her Shrewsbury home, but died from hypothermia in woodland. She was due to speak at the Sizewell Inquiry and was the aunt of Commander Robert Green, a naval intelligence officer who was wrongly said to have passed the order for the sinking of the Argentine ship the Belgrano during the Falklands War; both facts leading to conspiracy theories about her death. She was cremated and her ashes scattered at Maengwynedd, in Wales. A commemorative ...

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By 1976 Mineo's career seemed to be turning around again. Playing the role of a gay burglar in a San Francisco run of the stage comedy P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, he received substantial publicity from many positive reviews and moved on to Los Angeles with the play. Arriving home after a rehearsal on February 12, 1976 Mineo was stabbed to death in the alley behind a West Hollywood apartment building. He was 37. A career criminal named Lionel Ray Williams was later sentenced to life in prison for killing Mineo. Although there was con ...

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Hartman was murdered on May 28, 1998 in his Encino, California home. As he slept, Hartman was shot twice in the head by his wife, Brynn, who, hours later, turned the gun on herself with a shot to the left temple. The reasons for the murder-suicide are unknown, although friends of the Hartmans speculated in the press that the combination of their marriage problems and Brynn's drug addictions probably contributed. Hartman's murder caused considerable mourning in Hollywood. NewsRadio produced a special episode where the cast since ...

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Murder - United Kingdom. About 850 murders per year (reported in 2000) are committed in the United Kingdom. This is low compared to the United States with 12,000, however these are only raw numbers which do not take different population sizes into account: a better perspective can be gained by comparing murders per year per hundred thousand population (1 in the UK, 4 in the USA, and 63 in Colombia - source). In English law, murder is divided between several offences, including: Murder - the ki ...

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The Zebra murders were a number of connected murders performed by a black supremacist serial killer ring that took place in San Francisco, California in 1973 and 1974 and left 14 people dead and 7 injured. They were dubbed the Zebra Killings because of the radio channel used by the San Francisco Police ("Z") exclusively for this case. Zebra murders - The Death Angels. The zebra killings were the work of an extremist sect of the black nationalist group, the Nation of Islam. According to their beliefs, the wh ...

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The murder of children is considered a particularly abhorrent crime in most societies; they are perceived within their communities and the state at large as being vulnerable, and therefore especially susceptible to abduction and murder. The protection of children from abuse and possible death often involves disturbing the child's family structure, as tenuous as this may be. Child murder - Killing by family members vs. killing by strangers. Most murderers of children are relatives, acquaintance ...

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187 is the numeric code for the crime of murder used by law-enforcement officials, particularly in the state of California. This number is used for this purpose because Section 187 of the California Penal Code deals with that crime. 187 murder - Media references. In the early 1990s, the number began to appear in the lyrics of gangsta rap songs, prompting some radio stations to stop playing the songs in which the number was used. The following is a list of prominent examples of this usage: ...

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The Cleveland Torso Murderer (also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run) was an unidentified serial killer active in the Cleveland, Ohio, area in the early 20th century. The official toll of the murderer was 12, killed between 1935 to 1938, but some believe that there may have been as many as 40 victims in the Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Youngstown, Ohio, area between the 1920s and the 1950s. Two strong candidates for addition to the list of those killed are the unknown victim nicknamed the Lady of the Lake, found on S ...

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In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. Attempted murder - English law. As an attempt this falls within the scope of a1(1) Criminal Attempts Act 1981 and it is an indictable only offence, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. The mens rea (the Latin for the "guilty act") for m ...

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Murder in Small Town X was an American reality television series that aired on FOX from July through September 2001. The show is noteworthy for the macabre and tragically ironic fate of its eventual winner. The premise of the show was to bring 10 contestants from around the United States to a small fishing village (called "Sunrise" in the show) on the coast of Maine to act as amateur detectives to solve a series of fictional murders. Initially, the contestants were given a list of 16 suspects who were "townspeople ...

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The Tylenol murders occurred in the autumn of 1982, when seven people in the Chicago, Illinois area in the United States died after ingesting Extra Strength Tylenol medicine capsules which had been laced with cyanide poison. This incident was the first known case of death caused by deliberate product tampering. The perpetrator has never been caught, but the incident led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substance and federal anti-tampering laws. 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders - The incidents. In ...

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Outside of a political context, the term "mass murder" refers to the killing of several people at the same time. Examples would include shooting several people in the course of a robbery, or setting a crowded nightclub on fire. This is an ambiguous term, similar to serial killing and spree killing. The USA Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a mass murder as "[involving] the murder of four or more victims at one location, within one event." Most mass murderers fall into one of three categories: family annihilators, ...

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The concept of state-sponsored mass murder covers a range of potential killings. On one hand, there are clear examples of state-sponsored mass-murder, such as: Genocide of a particular ethnic or religious group, whether internal or external to the state, such as the Holocaust against the Jews Political mass murder or the killing of a particular political group within a country, such as Béla Kun's ethnic cleansing against turkish and tartar crimeans and other minorities in 1921-22, or Stalin's Great Purge. Deli ...

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Murder, Inc. was established in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1920s by Joe Adonis, and initially led by Martin "Bugsy" Goldstein and Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. Later it was controlled by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Albert Anastasia. They reported to higher Syndicate bosses. In 1932, Abe Wagner informed on the syndicate to the police. He fled to Saint Paul, Minnesota and adopted a disguise to evade possible pursuit. Two killers, George Young and Joseph Schafer, found and shot him but were later apprehended. Bu ...

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On October 19, 1973 a couple, Richard and Quita Hague, who were kidnapped by a group of men and forced into a white van as they took an after-dinner stroll near their home in Telegraph Hill. Quita was nearly decapitated with a machete after being sexually molested, and Richard was similarly hacked, but miraculously survived after being left for dead. Ten days later, on October 29, Frances Rose was repeatedly shot by a black man who asked for a ride as she was driving up to the ...

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Zebra murders, Zebra murders - The Death Angels, Zebra murders - The First Wave of Murders, Zebra murders - Reaction to the Murders, Zebra murders - The Killings Resume, Zebra murders - Reaction to the Second Wave, Zebra murders - Arrest and Conviction

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Murder, Inc. was established in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1920s by Joe Adonis, and initially led by Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein and Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. Later it was controlled by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Albert Anastasia. They reported to higher Syndicate bosses. In 1932, Abe Wagner informed on the syndicate to the police. He fled to Saint Paul, Minnesota and adopted a disguise to evade possible pursuit. Two killers, George Young and Joseph Schafer, found and shot him but were later apprehended. Bu ...

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Murder Inc., Murder Inc. - Background, Murder Inc. - History

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Murder, Inc., as it was called by the press, was a chapter of a so-called National Crime Syndicate in the USA. It was essentially an enforcement arm that specialized in contract killing. It operated from the end of Prohibition until the 1950s. Most of the killers were recruited from the gangs of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Ocean Hill, Brownsville, and East New York. They accepted murder contracts fro ...

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