• In addition, virtually everyone agrees that serious crimes such as murder and rape would be impeachable even though they do not involve official duties.

    CNN: Transcript: Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing

  • Seventy-four of them face serious charges such as murder and abduction.

    BBC: Why India is in dire need of electoral reform

  • Since the Crime and Security Act became law last year, police have had powers to force thousands of past offenders across England and Wales to provide a DNA sample in order to help solve serious crimes such as murder, rape and manslaughter dating back up to 40 years.

    BBC: A DNA autoradiogram

  • Only cases involving the most serious crimes such as murder, rape and armed robbery can be reviewed.

    ECONOMIST: New rules on double jeopardy score a first conviction

  • Channel 4 said it "was as valid a subject for television drama as any other illegal act, such as murder, theft and blackmail, watched by millions on television every week".

    BBC: john simm

  • Most violent crimes, such as murder, assault and rape, occur when the perpetrator is either on drugs or drunk, and a high percentage of property crime involves people seeking money to buy drugs and alcohol.

    FORBES: Bill Bennett: Still a Drug Warrior After All These Years

  • Conference participants will also develop plans and strategies for waging campaigns on a continental and international scale to protest or redress radical cases of rights violations, such as the arbitrary detention and murder of journalists, writers and others.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • Grenfell's legal team are criticising the way Lord Burns explained the case to the jury, claiming they were wrongly directed on such issues as the difference between murder and culpable homicide.

    BBC: Christopher Grenfell and James Simpson

  • 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.

    FORBES: To Protect The Innocent, We Need More Guns In The Hands Of Honest People

  • The media spread false stories about rape and murder (some of them gleaned from politicians such as the mayor), and visiting celebrities such as Sean Penn and Oprah Winfrey distracted emergency workers from their duties.

    ECONOMIST: The presidency

  • Under the law, you can use deadly force if you reasonably believe it immediately necessary to protect yourself and prevent certain violent crimes, such as murder, aggravated kidnapping, sexual assault or robbery.

    CNN: May 2, 2012 -- Updated 1215 GMT (2015 HKT)

  • Such cases reflect only one part of sharia: the system of corporal and capital punishments such as stoning for adultery, death for murder or apostasy (abandoning Islam), whipping for consuming intoxicants or the cutting off of a hand for theft.

    ECONOMIST: Sharia in the West

  • Russian journalists run the risk of attack and even murder if they delve too deeply into sensitive subjects such as corruption, organised crime or rights abuses.

    BBC: Russia country profile

  • The actress, best known for quirky roles in shows such as Jonathan Creek and Men Behaving Badly, beings shooting her new role in Blue Murder next month.

    BBC: Miss Marple defects to ITV

  • The prime minister stresses that Hamas has to do without such high-profile prisoners as Ahmed Saadat, convicted for the murder of an Israeli minister in 2001, and Marwan Barghouti, convicted of several murders but widely seen as a possible future Palestinian leader acceptable to all sides in the long-running conflict.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine

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