But defenders of the right to kill selectively cite the shooting down of Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the second world war, which was quite a cold-blooded business though he was clearly an enemy combatant.

ECONOMIST: Assassinations

Its narrative structure is conventional the girl's trials and tribulations, the cynic with a soul who has lost faith in the world, and the eloquent, cold-blooded thug but within these confines the characters have a shape of their own and the dialogue is refreshingly sharp.

ECONOMIST: French fiction

Relatives of David Ranta rejoiced in a Brooklyn courthouse Thursday as Ranta convicted more than two decades ago in the cold-blooded slaying of a prominent rabbi was released after prosecutors conceded their review of his murder case determined it was fatally flawed.

WSJ: Questions linger in 1990 murder of rabbi in NYC