Sentence examples for a particularly heinous from inspiring English sources

Every now and then a particularly heinous crime makes us pause and reflect.

Normally, the lobby goes quiet for a decent interval after a particularly heinous crime occurs.

It took not only a particularly heinous murder but also a fully idealized victim.

In Mortdecai's universe the world isn't revealed to be absurd and chaotic by a particularly heinous crime.

Based on a true story and unfolding, we are told in the film's opening moments, "exactly as it happened," "Daniel & Ana" takes a dispassionate look at the aftermath of a particularly heinous crime.

The answer is that the gassing of men, women and children is a particularly heinous crime, and a breach of a ban that has been intact since the 1920s.

In an effort to standardize what makes a crime particularly heinous, a group at New York University has been developing what it calls a depravity scale, which rates the horror of an act by the sum of its grim details.

Longtime readers may know that I'm no great fan of what manufacturers do to the stock Android experience, but Sony thankfully hasn't gone too crazy with their custom UI — save for a few particularly heinous widgets (Timescape and the large, love-em-or-hate-em Tools widgets in particular) I actually found myself enjoying some of what Sony came up with.

Laws that limit the availability of the death penalty to specific kinds of murder, like that of a police officer or witness, have lower death sentencing rates than those that use more subjective standards, like whether a murder was particularly heinous or atrocious.

Have the states successfully targeted only a narrow class of particularly heinous crimes and the most deserving criminals for the ultimate punishment, or do various elements of caprice, bias, and arbitrariness continue to make the application of the death penalty akin to "being struck by lightning" as the Court noted in Furman?

As in other places, Florida requires a jury in the sentencing phase of a trial to consider aggravating circumstances that would make a defendant eligible for the death penalty — in Hurst's case, that the crime was committed during a robbery, and that it was particularly "heinous, atrocious or cruel" — along with mitigating circumstances, such as a defendant's low IQ or childhood abuse.