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Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
dx30-85

MURDER

(See also Cities of Refuge; Crime; Killing; Manslayer; Moral Breakdown)

(Note centered heading below: Quotations)

abortion: w83 12/1 28; w77 248; g75 6/8 30; g73 12/22 28; g71 2/22 29; g70 10/22 6-7, 27-28; g64 12/8 20

Bible definition: g78 12/22 27; g74 5/8 27

Bible penalty: g79 7/8 10; lp 149-150; g77 7/22 6-8; g75 11/22 10, 26-28; g74 7/22 27-28; w73 300-308; w73 511; w72 480; ad 1190; g70 10/22 27; w63 671-672; bf 19; w55 726; sr55 234; w53 376; nh 103; rm 80; w48 150; g36 8/12 731-734; w30 334

book How to Kill (six volumes): w82 1/1 15

by—

friends and relatives: g75 11/22 4-5

husbands and wives: g80 4/22 6

strangers: g78 8/22 29

youths: g84 7/22 30; g78 6/22 3; g74 9/8 10; g69 2/22 4, 8; g68 4/8 29-30

Cain: hs 44-46; w73 300-301; w72 650; ad 275; li 323-324; w65 166-167; bf 19; ns 48; w59 646; w58 229-230; pa 36; yw 65-66; w56 493-494; w48 150, 230; w46 52-53; wl 34-36; en 32; g36 8/12 731

capital punishment:

deterrent to: g77 7/22 7-8

not murder: g77 7/22 6-7

when God first authorized: ad 1190

Catholic Church: g44 6/7 26; g44 7/19 21; g42 2/4 22; g42 3/18 24; g41 9/3 23-24; g38 2/23 3-5; g37 4/7 420-430; g37 9/8 798; g36 2/12 309; g36 7/1 616-617

causes: g78 3/8 31; w75 36; g75 4/22 31; g73 3/8 30; w72 707; g68 1/8 20; g68 8/8 4-5; w66 740-741; g65 11/22 30

alcohol: g79 10/22 30; g77 12/22 4

demons and demonistic practices: w80 9/1 11; hp 129; g80 7/22 31; g80 12/8 6-7; g75 5/22 30; g57 9/22 9-11; g50 8/22 13-16; g49 11/22 9-11; g46 6/19 19-22; en 32; g36 6/3 563

influence of prizefights: g85 4/8 30

life valued as cheap: g77 7/22 7

children: g72 12/8 30

baby girls in China: w83 7/1 11

child sacrifices: g80 11/22 30

circuit overseer in Zimbabwe: yb85 210

discussion: ad 1190-1191; g70 10/22 27-28

effigy-killing unchristian: g60 11/8 15

euthanasia (mercy killing): g74 5/8 27-28

therapeutic euthanasia: w83 4/15 28

examples: g75 11/22 8-10; w73 303; g72 1/8 15

Philippines: yb78 98

shouting motorist beaten to death: g77 1/22 31

Spain: yb78 257

fetus:

killed during a crime: w82 6/15 30; g80 5/22 15

legal case over death of: g75 6/8 30

first murderer: hs 40-41; ts 79-81; bf 569; w60 236; nh 82; el 33-34; w48 125; en 32; g36 8/12 731

forgiveness possible for: g75 11/22 28

Guyana:

Jonestown murder/suicides: w79 3/1 19; w79 5/15 3-6; w79 8/1 26

homosexual violence: g81 3/8 31

human sacrifices: g82 2/8 29

to obtain blood: g80 6/8 30

increase of executions without due process of law: g83 7/22 29

in prison: g77 7/22 7

in the name of religion: g83 5/8 29

Italy:

crimes of passion: g81 12/8 30

killers who roam from city to city and kill without apparent motive: g84 7/22 31

“legalized”: g38 3/9 18-19; g37 2/10 301-303; g36 8/12 707-717; g36 9/9 771-780

multiple: g68 1/8 7

murderer of San Francisco mayor released from prison: g84 5/8 30

murderer rehabilitated: w78 3/15 7

Muslims:

wives killed over rules of fasting: g76 11/22 30

Nigerian religious cult: g83 2/8 29

plea bargaining: g75 11/22 9-10

pollution likened to a form of: g71 4/22 24

prevented by friendliness: w76 679

punishment according to various countries: g79 7/8 9

resurrection prospects for murderers: w54 285-286

ritual: us 27-28; yb76 160, 194

Sixth Commandment: g78 12/22 27-28

statistics: w83 3/1 27; g81 8/8 30; g77 7/22 8; g75 11/22 3-6; w74 99; g74 6/22 31; g74 7/22 30; g74 9/8 4, 30; g73 3/8 30; g72 9/22 4; g72 10/8 30; g71 5/8 31; g71 8/22 29; g68 1/8 5; g66 11/22 9; g65 7/8 4; g62 10/22 14; g61 7/8 29; g44 9/13 22; g35 4/24 469

effect of prizefights: g85 4/8 30

effect of tough sentences: g85 4/8 30

TV documentary “Murder Teen-Age Style”: g81 12/22 30

unsolved, in ancient Israel: lp 150; g75 11/22 27

use of handguns: g82 1/8 31

victims: w75 36

when most are committed: g63 6/8 30

Zaire:

massacre of Witnesses by members of Kimbilikiti: w85 3/1 3-10

Quotations

growing scorn for human life: g83 7/22 29

universally regarded as a crime: g79 1/8 13-14

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