Prosecutors revel in name-calling and character assassination, calling defendants "worms," "germs," "trash," "rats," "animals," "mad dogs," "subhuman," "rancid," and "rotten".
However, the Secessionist Party just celebrated the 151st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, calling April 14 "a true southern holiday" as it marked the date "the greatest American dictator was shot".
In 1996, Mr. Peres, who had taken over as prime minister after Mr. Rabin's assassination, called an early election, certain of victory.
"If you look at the choice of target it really could only be Israel," says Robert Baer, a former CIA agent in the Middle East, currently working on a book on assassination called The Perfect Kill.
"Caricature assassination," Patterson called it.
"He heads a special assassination unit called the School of the Lion's Den," he said.
In the afterword to his latest novel, "11/22/63," about John F. Kennedy's assassination, Stephen King calls Jack Finney "one of America's great fantasists," and his book, "Time and Again," "the great time travel story".
Reporters at each of those publications have already zeroed in on some fascinating items, including revelations about an assassination squad called Task Force 373, connections between the Taliban and Pakistani military intelligence, and the incident I described above.
In 1843, when Daniel M'naghten was acquitted by reason of insanity in the murder of the English prime minister's secretary during an attempted assassination, Queen Victoria called for a reappraisal of the law.
He insisted he did not fear assassination and called for the 15-nation Southern African Development Community to send observers to ensure Mugabe's forces did not intimidate voters.
Valenti's chapter on the Kennedy assassination is called "The Longest Day," and it includes Johnson's Capraesque declarations of what he'll do now that he's president: "I'm going to get a bill through that's gonna make sure that everybody has a right to vote.
