He was found guilty of murder. Like those found guilty of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, he was hanged.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

An exception is when a jury is asked to recommend either execution or life in prison in murder cases punishable by death.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

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

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

VOA: special.2009.01.12

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

VOA: special.2010.02.15

He wrote to his friend,botanist Joseph Hooker, that speaking about evolution "was like confessing a murder."

VOA: special.2009.02.25

had formed a conspiracy to murder my brothers Morgan and Virgil and Doc Holliday and myself.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

They also said the proclamation was an invitation for Negroes to murder whites.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Professor Roth says poverty and unemployment do not lead to higher murder rates.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

The museum shows objects related to the people who plotted Lincoln's murder.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

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

Some politicians have linked the song to the murder last Saturday of the leader of the white-supremacist Afrikaner Resistance Movement, Eugene Terre'Blanche.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Leaders of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority quickly condemned the Tel Aviv shooting as murder and called for the gunman to be caught and punished.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

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

He confesses to her daughter's murder and begs her to forgive him.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Eight years after Sierra Leone's civil war ended, some communities have yet to come to terms with the destruction, murder and rape committed on them by their own people.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Isn't that correct? " Hollis asked.Well, that is correct counsel," The former president is pleading not guilty to an 11-count indictment that includes murder,rape,enslavement, and conscription of child soldiers.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"And the U.S.State Department sentenced no opposition figures, intellectuals,journalists or bloggers to prisons in Syria,Egypt,Saudi Arabia and elsewhere around the Middle East, where they were subject to torture, rape and murder.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18