In stylized form, we see the torture and murder of citizens as treachery becomes an everyday occurrence.

When we found his international fingerprints all over the murders of American citizens in Berlin, we punished Qaddafi.

"As to the charge of murder of American citizens by terrorist act, we find the defendant not guilty."

It violates minimal comity among nations for the leader of one state to clamor for the murder of citizens of another.

Petrov learned the true excesses behind the Great Purges while decrypting signals which set quotas for the murder of citizens.

Aincairt, who had overseen the torture and murder of citizens, had been unable to flee the country and had been in hiding for a week.

Street gangs have become organized cartels, whose bosses control enough power to order the murder of citizens from their prison cells, like drug dealers in Bogota, Colombia.

There was the Nanking massacre, but was not the murder of unarmed citizens in Beijing 16 years ago also a massacre?

The police stand by laughing at the brutal scenes of intimidation and even murder of honest citizens.

My point is that it's astonishing to have six murders of upstanding citizens in one day.