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On the contrary, what is rotten in Ukraine is not its constitution, but its president, who is mired in charges of corruption and orchestrating the murder of journalists, and who is shunned by other world leaders.
The Spanish had grown so inured to acts of violence from Basque separatists that the murder of 191 people in Madrid by Islamist extremists in 2004 was met with remarkable sang-froid.
NEW YORK - The brutal murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, shakes us to the core as individuals and requires a response as citizens.
Easy access to guns in the US leads to horrific murder rates relative to other highly educated and wealthy societies.
Indeed, America's gun culture is a threat to freedom, after the murder of a president, senator, and other public leaders, and countless assassination attempts against public officials over recent decades.
The shooting in Newtown was not only especially horrific and heartbreaking, but is also part of an increasingly common pattern - a specific kind of murder-suicide that has been carefully studied by psychologists and psychiatrists.
The fact that Russia's Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, took over the investigation into Politkovskaya's killing, as he did with the murder of Kozlov, doesn't inspire hope, as such senior level involvement would in any real democracy.
Politkovskaya's murder is a particularly grim augury when you consider that she was a powerful critic of Russia's President.
But even if Vladimir Putin's associates had nothing to do with Politkovskaya being gunned down in an elevator of her apartment building in the center of Moscow, his contempt for law created the climate in which the murder was carried out.
Like the murder of Archbishop Thomas Beckett in his Canterbury Cathedral many centuries ago, the crime was committed in the clear belief that it would please the king.
Putin's Russia has already lost 12 leading journalists to murder in the past six years.
Not since Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination has a murder shaken Belgrade as much as the killing of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic.
But effective or quick suppression of the organized criminals who were almost certainly behind Djindjic's murder is unlikely.
Djindjic's murder will make the fight against crime the country's main political goal.
Djindjic's murder shows that the situation is so dire that aid should no longer be strictly conditional on harsh reforms.
Austria's past calls for an intensely critical and sensitive approach to injustice, murder, and terror under the Nazi regime.
Nikolay is disposed of by having him framed for his wife's murder and tried by a crooked court.
Then there is a utilitarian argument: capital punishment deters many criminals from murder.
LONDON - US President Barack Obama has vowed to avenge the murder of J. Christopher Stevens, America's former ambassador to Libya.
In 2008, there were 418,000 homicides around the world, with far too many countries recording a murder rate of more than 10 per 100,000, which the World Health Organization regards as an epidemic.
Among non-democracies, China had the Bo Xilai scandal, which was worthy of a spy novel, with illicit affairs, rampant corruption, murder, and a senior police official's dramatic quest for asylum in a US consulate.
Why should the one region - and people - who run an orderly government, are not involved in murder, attacks on mosques, and suicide bombing of schoolchildren, be penalized?