The civilised world is appalled by the cruel, degrading and cold-blooded execution of Troy Davis (Report, 22 September).
Tellingly, it was Smith's cold-blooded execution, and not the Clutters' murder, that gave the book its title.
Judge Farber, who presided at this trial as well, called the crime "a cold-blooded execution," and gave Cartagena the same sentence as Brockington's.
His first act was to organise the cold-blooded execution of more than 2,000 imprisoned army officers, suspected of being "fifth-columnists".
A man has been jailed for a minimum of 26 years for murdering a travel agent in a "cold-blooded execution" at her workplace following the break-up of his relationship.
Proponents of the plea bargaining, by contrast, point to the benefits of the new strategy, like the recent testimony that disclosed the detailed Bosnian Serb planning that went into the cold-blooded execution of some 7,000 Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, the greatest massacre of the Yugoslav wars.
Sentencing the killers, Recorder of London Judge Peter Beaumont said: 'For reasons beyond the comprehension of the court, you chose to open fire in a way which was intended to be a cold-blooded execution of the people who were in the car.
What we got for the woman whose moral sense of right and wrong is as solid as a continent was an ending that found her committing herself to a man who can best be described as a volatile adulterer, carrying out a cold-blooded execution, and then, to add insult to fatal injury, doing precisely what the craggy-faced fella told her to do without a jot of complaint: skipping off for a life on the run.
Now, he writes, the "story of a cold-blooded execution by cop seems even more unlikely".
Police say Mrs Dewani was not sexually assaulted after her husband and Tongo were ejected from the car and that she died from a single gunshot wound to the neck, fuelling suggestions this was a cold-blooded execution.
