murder

A Las Vegas jury on Monday found a onetime Compton gang leader guilty in the slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur, marking a turning point in a murder mystery that captivated the public’s attention for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted executions in the state after a woman convicted of murder survived two doses of lethal injection before she was rushed to hospital for medical care.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

He has taken more than 100 jury trials to verdict, including murder, special circumstances and three-strikes cases, some of which carried sentences of death or life in prison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

District Attorney Timothy Cruz told reporters outside after court that prosecutors have not yet decided if they are going to retry Clancy on murder charges.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

That information was needed as evidence in Charles Guiteau’s murder trial.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

These attacks, plus a long list of murders of expatriates in Europe, happened when the oft-described “pragmatist,” Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani still dominated Tehran and controlled the Intelligence Ministry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Prosecutors rejected that argument, saying Clancy had carefully planned the murders and was able to understand the consequences of her actions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

She said state prosecutors had presented numerous pieces of evidence showing Clancy was in a healthy mental state at the time of the murders during the trial.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

It reveals a scenario in which the murders may never have taken place at all.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

For some time Milkman had been picking up hints that one or more of these murders had in fact been either witnessed or committed by a Negro.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

In Prime Video’s “Spider-Noir,” he played Ben Reilly, a hapless and jaded private eye who used to moonlight as a masked vigilante known as the Spider until the love of his life was murdered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Ryan Speedo Green was an eloquent Banquo; Freddie De Tommaso’s bright tenor brought poignant lyricism to Macduff’s lament for his murdered family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

SAT's co-founder Brendan Cox, whose wife MP Jo Cox was murdered by a neo-Nazi in 2016, welcomed the national day but warned "survivors also want it to be a moment of accountability".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

There are posh parties, through which some of the young characters pass, though no one is doing cocaine or getting murdered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Jupe’s head is in Rae’s lap, and Rae’s running her fingers through Jupe’s curls, something I would get murdered for if I tried to do—and I have.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the show will see a group of famous 'faithfuls' attempt to work out which among them are the 'traitors' secretly "murdering" contestants each night.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The lawyer for Lindsay Clancy urged a judge Tuesday to acquit the US mother accused of murdering her three children after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the high-profile case.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

To wit: Sexton received 3,000 emails from a Kansas housewife obsessed with clearing the name of Dana Chandler, who had been convicted of murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Earlier this year, Finance Minister John O'Dowd committed to changing family law to automatically remove the parental responsibility of anyone convicted of murdering someone with whom they shared a child.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

And as for finding and defeating the evil in the castle...well, now that it seemed tied to who was murdering the Champions, how could she not try to figure out where it was coming from?

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas