Zhu Ling is blind, unable to speak or move, clearly the victim of a heinous crime.

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But she insists he was a docile boy and could not commit such a heinous crime.

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They resent seeing some MPs buy, do up and sell properties on the taxpayer's ticket (a heinous crime in a country where a man's home is not only his castle but his pension too).

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Texan Daniel Snow, a onetime insurance salesman, was charged with a more heinous crime: trading with the enemy.

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The president said he was reacting as a parent of two daughters, describing the shooting as a "heinous crime, " and promising to press for meaningful action to prevent similar attacks.

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It is a most heinous crime.

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He said this was "contrary to principles of justice that our law has always applied in cases however heinous a crime might be".

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"Today's Indictment represents just one more step towards closure and healing, not only for the victims of this heinous hate crime, but for the community as a whole, " FBI Special Agent-in-Charge John Brosnan said in a statement.

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We have a criminal investigation that is ongoing and charges that no doubt will be brought against the perpetrator of this heinous crime.

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