1.   He is a vicious criminal who deserves no mercy.

2.   And they treated her as if she were a vicious criminal.

3.   Before the murder, he said, he viewed capital punishment as something for mass murderers and vicious criminals.

4.   How in the world could anyone object to the righteous execution of a criminal as vicious as Ricky Lee Green?

5.   She condemned the crime but characterized it not as the work of a vicious criminal but of a teen-ager who made a horrible mistake.

6.   Why dispatch vicious criminals as gently as one might put down an aged family dog?