Killing

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Killing

Informal; an extremely large profit.

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The assisting officer returned fire, striking and killing the man.

Summaries of felonious incidents

At least to the killers, that kind of killing, like impersonal bombings from on high, can easily seem consequence-free.

The strong, violent type. (Flip Side)

Of the remaining 431 officers slain within the killing zone, the circumstances varied.

Officers' Perceptual Shorthand

Lately, however, a number of Arab activists and leaders--including Jordan's King Abdullah and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak--have begun to attack the practice of so-called honor killing. At a conference in Jordan in June, delegates from the region discussed the problem openly--a rarity in itself--and began to consider action.

MURDER FOR HONOR

I don't know why I've come here tonight really; my motives are not as pure as the people I'm with--joined in a small, silent circle against the notion of a state killing. I came tonight partly just to be part of this macabre production, partly because I think the death penalty is a pretty rotten idea, but not at all, finally, because I am going to regret the end of John Wayne Gacy.

Waiting for Gacy

THE ACT OF KILLING MAY BE DEEMED good or bad, depending on who kills whom and why.

Killing kindness

But it isn't criminals who are killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000 people who die from handguns each year.

The NRA is right; but we still need to ban handguns

Taliban said it was responsible.-- February 5: Twenty-two people were killed in a suicide attack that targeted a gathering for the Shiites in Karachi.-- February 17: The Pakistani Army confirmed arrest of the military commander of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul-Ghani Baradar in the south.-- February 20: Thirty gunmen were killed in an air strike carried out by the Pakistani Air Force on the militants' hideouts in Waziristan.-- March 4: Militants attacked a military roadblock in Mohmand in northwest Pakistan killing a soldier.

Major international events in 2010

Sarah Marsland 86 07/08/78 At home Unlawful killing

THE 215 VICTIMS OF THE MORPHINE MURDERER

THE President of the Nigerian Community in South Africa, Mr Benjamin Okoli, has decried the killing of a Nigerian, Mr Ire Chinello by an unidentified assailant on March 31 in South Africa.

Community Decries Killing Of Nigerian In South Africa

Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti has vowed to expose those killing innocent Kenyans.

May God curse me if I cover-up for murderers - DCI boss Kinoti

May 13: Three suicide bombing target churches in Surabaya city, Indonesia, killing 11 people and wounding four dozens.