The killing attracted international attention because of charges that the Royal Ulster Constabulary may have helped the murderer.

Obviously mercy killings and accidental killings should attract shorter sentences - but are they not in any case more normally covered by manslaughter?

The killing of Betty Jeanne Solomon on Jan. 15, 1989, attracted little attention.

Coming as it did, while the grief-stricken nation was still reeling from the Kennedy assassination six days earlier, the killing attracted fleeting attention and was quickly forgotten.

Gunfighter Ernie Parsons escapes hanging for the killing of a disreputable character by the false testimony of a woman attracted to him.

The killing of Gaddafi after his capture in Sirte, which was recorded on mobile phone cameras, has attracted international criticism.

Krentz's killing attracted national attention and became a rallying cry for border security and immigration reform.

Such public killing attracts.

The killings attracted wide attention from 1979 to 1981 as Federal, state and Atlanta law-enforcement officers tried to solve a series of 30 killings of black children and young adults.

The killings of the Indians near Trinidad have attracted renewed attention since the drug-related massacre of 18 men, women and children on Sept. 17 near Ensenada.