In particular, politically motivated killings and kidnappings in 1987 occurred with much less frequency than in the early 1980's.

Human rights groups have listed 77 politically motivated killings since last summer.

That was a politically motivated killing by loyalists, but I do believe the hand of the British Government was in there somewhere.

In the years afterward, under elected leaders who proclaimed themselves democratic, hundreds more politically motivated killings took place without prosecutions, punishment, or the killers becoming known.

That forced the judge to sentence the former soldier to life in prison for the racially motivated killings.

Across the South, these and other unresolved, racially motivated killings of blacks from the civil rights era are under new scrutiny.

Initial reports suggested that he had been poisoned, with the implication that it was a politically motivated killing.

So the politically motivated killing increased rapidly.

Those groups have been held largely responsible for the politically motivated killings in the first place.

The skinheads pleaded guilty in 1989 to criminal charges in the racially motivated killing.