"This was a truly gruesome killing ripped from the pages of a hit TV script.
The original Suspiria's murder scenes are elaborate set-pieces done with exquisite slow-build timing, melodramatic in their intensity, and, for many viewers, these gruesome kills were far more memorable than the witchcraft-tinged story.
It is richly detailed and upsetting, and manages to retain the audience's sympathy despite the gruesome killings: Wuornos killed seven men who picked her up along a stretch of Florida's I-95 freeway.
"I just can't overlook what he's done foreign-policy-wise: The kill list, the gruesome killing of Osama bin Laden, the rapes, the tortures, and the never-ending drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal areas.
Ms. Li's was especially gruesome: After killing her husband (which she confessed to early, asking a neighbor to call the police), she cut him up and boiled some of the parts.
Of course, there is a reason that most states retired the electric chair: Electrocution is a messy, gruesome way to kill someone.
There are several gruesome passages in "Killing the Shadows".
The series suggests that, when the Ripper was still at large, the police imitated his gruesome method of killing so that their acts would be taken as his.
Isis has asked people of similar ilk to carry out beheadings, tapping into widespread publicity they have received through that gruesome form of killing.
Wouter Basson, known as "Dr Death" for his role in devising gruesome ways of killing people, is currently up for amnesty.Without the lure of amnesty, however, few would have confessed let alone relinquished power and much of the truth would have remained buried.
