The incidents included the murder of a civil rights activist in Mississippi and the killings of four young girls in Alabama.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

He told the story of Roy Brown, who was found guilty of murder and who also attended the hearing.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

He was found guilty of murder. Like those found guilty of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, he was hanged.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

For this workshop, Larissa used red paint to show how different murder weapons can leave different patterns of blood.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

"Mr.President," he said, "at this time it is suicide -- murder and will lose us every friend in the North.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

And,he was right. John F.Kennedy became president in nineteen sixty-one and served until his murder two years later.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The appeal was rejected. On July seventh,David Herold, Lewis Paine,George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt were hanged for the murder of Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

An exception is when a jury is asked to recommend either execution or life in prison in murder cases punishable by death.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Still,murder rates in the United States have generally been among the highest among Western democracies since the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

In West Virginia in nineteen twelve, violence connected to a miners' strike led to her trial and conviction for conspiracy to murder.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

In all three of America's biggest cities, murder rates have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1960s.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

They had tried to arrest group members in the past for crimes such as robbery and murder.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

This place that had been full of crime and murder became the most orderly in the city.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

had formed a conspiracy to murder my brothers Morgan and Virgil and Doc Holliday and myself.

VOA: special.2010.02.15