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cold-blooded, pitiless slayer

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 507 U.S. 463 - Arave v. Creech · 1993Most cited · 543 citing opinions

a killer who kills without feeling or sympathy.

How often courts cite the case defining “cold-blooded, pitiless slayer”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “cold-blooded, pitiless slayer” — 543 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.