It was disturbing to think that a heinous murder is still at large in my home city.

想到自己居住的城市里有一个罪大恶极的杀人凶手继续逍遥法外，令人不寒而栗。

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It was a spectacularly gruesome and public form of torture and execution, and was reserved only for this most serious crime, which was deemed more heinous than murder and other capital offences.

这是一种及其可怕及其残忍的酷刑和死刑，只会判给那些最严重的罪行，比谋杀，危害人身安全更为严重的罪行。

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Criminals, intending to break the laws banning such heinous crimes as rape, murder, and armed robbery, will not be deterred by laws banning gun ownership.

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They found a "heinous plot to kidnap, rape, murder and cannibalise a number of very real women", assistant US attorney Randall Jackson told the court.

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He was found guilty on 11 counts of war crimes, relating to atrocities that included rape and murder and described by one of the judges as "some of the most heinous crimes in human history".

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