The incidents included the murder of a civil rights activist in Mississippi and the killings of four young girls in Alabama.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

"Mr.President," he said, "at this time it is suicide -- murder and will lose us every friend in the North.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

They say the Earps and Doc Holliday did not fire in self-defense, but used the law as an excuse for murder.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

And,he was right. John F.Kennedy became president in nineteen sixty-one and served until his murder two years later.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

In all three of America's biggest cities, murder rates have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1960s.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Still,murder rates in the United States have generally been among the highest among Western democracies since the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

In West Virginia in nineteen twelve, violence connected to a miners' strike led to her trial and conviction for conspiracy to murder.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

They had tried to arrest group members in the past for crimes such as robbery and murder.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

This place that had been full of crime and murder became the most orderly in the city.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Congress first acted in nineteen sixty-eight after the murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

And third,he could not be guilty of murder, because he had killed only in self-defense.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

John Brown was tried in nearby Charles Town and found guilty of treason and murder.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

This information can show what kind of weapon was used in a murder.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

What about trust in government could it even affect murder rates?

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Just saying peace won't bring peace. Those who are in direct or indirect contact with the PKK are accomplices to murder.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

In a White House statement, President Obama said the bombings "serve no purpose other than the murder of innocent men, women and children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair was killed in a bizarre murder-suicide in July.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

The violence, including an unsolved murder of a Punjabi accounting graduate, has caused a drop in the number of young Indians coming to study in Australia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

There are credible reports of abuses that need to be investigated including the murder of an indigenous woman and the rape of another two in one community."

VOA: standard.2009.03.22