But rebels say they will now shoot their enemies, rather than hacking people to death or slitting throats.

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Depp, 43, takes the title role as the legendary London barber who murders his customers by slitting their throats.

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Martinez then described in detail the stabbing, Alexander's fight for his life, the slitting of his throat and the gunshot to his head.

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Writing this now, I feel like slitting my wrists and stomach.

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Drivers who deliver Chinese grain tell of Koreans jumping on to their lorries, slitting open the sacks and scooping the leaking grain directly into their mouths.

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And before that crime went to trial, he was picked up for allegedly slitting the throat of one-time college sweetheart, Hyesung Lynda Hong, a radiant and intelligent Korean-American law student.

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Ed thought often of suicide, of checking into a Las Vegas hotel room and finishing himself off in some spectacular way, slitting his throat in a tub or spattering his brains with a pistol shot.

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As part of that lawsuit, Picard also sued Claudine de la Villehuchet, the widow of Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, a French hedge fund manager who killed himself soon after the Ponzi scheme came to light by swallowing sleeping pills and slitting his wrists in his Manhattan office.

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