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murderer

[mur-der-er] / ˈmɜr dər ər /


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Convicted murderer Christa Gail Pike was hospitalized after she survived two doses of a lethal drug.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

A group of other Russian and German prisoners were also freed, in exchange for Western countries releasing several Russian assets, including convicted murderer Vadim Krasikov.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The justice minister remains "deeply concerned" about the circumstances surrounding the temporary release of a convicted murderer.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

At night, Elle shrugs on her father’s heavy black coat and slips into a reverie about a myth in which a grief-stricken murderer called the Leather Man searches for his lost daughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Poor Bell was shunned and looked upon by the whole community as a murderer.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Convicted murderers and prisoners on orders for lifelong restriction would be excluded from the changes.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Still, she imposed what Norman Podhoretz called an “inordinate demand”: that Jews under Hitler be braver and nobler than ordinary people could be expected to be when murderers held all the power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Either way, reluctance to associate either Salinger or his most indelible creation with crazed murderers meant keeping their own wounds at arms’ length.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

"China supports Thailand in conducting the trial in accordance with the law and severely punishing the murderers."

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

“You know they shot her cells into murderers in prison?”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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