heinousness

But given the heinousness of the crime, what lawyer will want to provide it?

Others have received attention because of the heinousness of the crime.

And the heinousness of the crime itself often discredits the assassin's cause.

"We will clearly be looking at this new evidence and filing the charges that reflect the heinousness of the crime."

Under the guidelines, all crime are ranked on a scale from 1 to 43; the greater the heinousness, the higher the number.

Or were my circuits simply overloaded to the point that I could not absorb more heinousness?

One is led to considering the establishment of a hierarchy of the heinousness.

To do that, jurors are to weigh the heinousness of the crime against any mitigating factors.

"If he won't acknowledge the heinousness of this procedure, there's no abortion that he'll say is wrong."

It is based on an Internet survey that asks respondents to rank various acts in order of heinousness.

These were hardened criminals, literally branded for the heinousness of their behavior."

He admonished the "heinousness of her lying" during a time of supposed humiliation.

He'd gotten two days off to consider the heinousness of his crime, and the old man had taken his belt to him when he found out.

But mostly what he has done is gone out of his way to dramatize the heinousness and idiocy of slavery.

That surely was a heinousness.

Separate offences for cases involving police-officers and children would be retained, to mark out the extra heinousness of such crimes in general.

Prosecutors will weigh the heinousness of the murder against the defendant's background, and consider the likelihood of winning a death verdict.

"Even if I were guilty-which I will never admit-where is the heinousness of the crime?

Mr. Shepard's killer has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences, a punishment commensurate with the heinousness of the crime.

And, she added, "If you decide you must carry out this execution, do it based solely on the brutality and heinousness of my crime.

While this is a risk that literature generally runs in Bolaño's works, these characters stand out by force of the heinousness of their political philosophy.

Given the heinousness of the crime, and my dissatisfaction with both the defense and the prosecution, I opted to hightail it out of there.

He poses no threat to society and despite the heinousness of his crimes, has amply demonstrated that he has rehabilitated himself, she said.

I remember that upon one occasion he spoke in a deeply reverent manner of the heinousness of the crime of self-destruction.

Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural History for the benefit of the young and tender, free from the same heinousness of mistake.