11.   And trainer Harry Keitt is a former crack-addict and convicted murderer who hopes to ride one of their stars to deliverance.

12.   Any public record of a case is extremely rare, although convicted murderers are usually beheaded in public squares and the reason for the verdict announced.

13.   Arizona State University, inundated by angry calls, reversed course Thursday and will not allow convicted murderer James Hamm to teach criminal justice classes this spring.

14.   As a convicted murderer on death row, Sean Penn gives his best work since The Falcon and the Snowman.

15.   As a rule, convicted murderers seem to have more pen pals than patients in VA hospitals.

16.   At Woodburne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne, N.Y., convicted murderer Vincent Malerba, helps other inmates prepare briefs and appeals.

17.   But some left-wing politicians sharply criticized the prison, saying it would provide first-class accommodations for convicted murderers and torturers.

18.   But Virginia has been executing convicted murderers fairly regularly under its state homicide statute.

19.   Capital punishment is a divisive topic in the United States, and recently a heated debate has arisen about whether convicted murderers who are mentally retarded should be executed.

20.   Claude Roberson, a convicted murderer from Baton Rouge, said he is doing it for a Christmas present.