"At my trial the court denounced me as a 'mere murderer' and found my political declarations without weight," she says.
In setting the hallmark of his color upon him, his individuality is in a sense submerged, and instead of a mere thief, robber, or murderer, he becomes a representative of his race, which is in turn made to suffer for his sins (Sellin, 1928, p.63).
Here we could argue that there are some 70,000 doctors in England and Wales alone, and so a mere handful of professional murderers in the last 50 years speaks generally very highly of their moral fibre, or, instead, the ease with which they can conceal their crimes.
The conviction rate is a mere 7%, and even then the murderer can expect to serve an average of only four-and-a-half years in jail.This failure of public policy has encouraged private (in)justice.
In this way, our sympathy is extended to psychopathic mass-murderers when in other shows mere adulterers find themselves beyond its scope.
A string of similar cases has resulted in about $2 billion in damages being awarded to victims of other foreign torturers and murderers but, until the Marcos settlement, a mere $460 had been collected.
Of course, it's important to recognize the obvious bias in "Making a Murderer" — the 10-hour series is only a mere fragment of the months-long trial and includes no interviews with police or local prosecutors.
But murderers and armed robbers had higher testosterone levels than mere car thieves and burglars.
Mulder believes the murderer to be the mysterious "Fiji mermaid", which Scully argues is only a hoax a mere humbug.
