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mercy killings

noun

plural of mercy killing

as in murders

the act of ending the life of someone who is very sick or injured in order to prevent any further suffering Some called her death a mercy killing.

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What remains disputed is whether those beliefs motivated the Tate-LaBianca murders or whether, as Berlinger argues, prosecutors elevated them into the central theory of their case.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
The Scream saga began with a ringing phone and one of the most surprising murders in horror-movie history.

— Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026

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Thaw The Cold Cases isn’t connected with the Fort Worth Police Department’s Cold Case Unit, but the group aims to raise awareness about the city’s nearly 1,000 unsolved homicides and call for more resources to investigate them.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026
At this time last year, Kansas City had recorded 111 homicides.

— Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2026

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But aid workers in Haiti say that large outbreaks of gang violence, particularly massacres like the one in Kenscoff, a community in the hills above Port-au-Prince, are not uncommon.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026
In his reports, there is both disbelief and bitter acceptance of the massacres of Ukraine’s Jewish population.

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

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