"Therefore, despite your positive efforts while incarcerated, your release at this time would greatly undermine respect for the law and tend to trivialize the tragic loss of life which you caused as a result of this heinous, unprovoked, violent, cold and calculated crime".
Perhaps the Supreme Court will finally rule (5 to 4, of course) that there is simply no humane way to put someone to death in cold blood, no matter how heinous a crime he has committed.
Seeking to execute cold-bloodedly even a man found guilty of the most heinous crimes would achieve nothing concrete in terms of real justice.
Expressions of anger and frustration are rational responses to such power inequality, not to mention to the cold-blooded killing of a member of their community and the heinous treatment of his body.
To be clear, nobody's saying that all -- or even most -- terrorists aren't cold, bloodthirsty killers who know exactly what they're doing every time they commit another heinous act.
What he finds out is a harrowing tale spun by cold-blooded murderers who show absolutely no remorse and spin tales that cast their heinous acts as heroic in a way unmatched by even the most psychotic mass murderers in contemporary history.
It seemed that for no crime more heinous than accidentally scoring an own goal during a football match, Andrés Escobar had been gunned down in cold blood.
Convinced that the cold war was but a "fabricated reality," Saunders deftly isolates from its context what she sees as a heinous intelligence plot so that she can drench it all the better in self-righteous, ahistorical wrath.
Satz argued that the death penalty was warranted because Cruz "knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons" and committed a crime in a "cold, calculated and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification," and because the crime "was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel," according to a copy of the filing.
