11.   He had pleaded guilty to a string of violent robberies in Queens.

12.   It was a few days after the violent robbery that had killed Abdul Kareem Alsahybi in his Brooklyn delicatessen.

13.   These included chopping off hands for theft, the traditional Islamic punishment, and an automatic death sentence for particularly violent robberies or any kind of murder.

14.   A man arrested for attempting to burglarize an Upper West Side home has been linked to a string of violent robberies in the same neighborhood, police said.

15.   Crime has become a major problem in post-Soviet Russia, with official corruption, organized crime, murders and violent robberies a pervasive part of life.

16.   Even before being condemned to death for killing Wachira, both defendants were already on death row for previous crimes of murder and violent robbery.

17.   Five others who killed people or committed violent robberies were sentenced to death.

18.   French police uncovered the network by accident, going after what they thought was a gang carrying out violent robberies in the Roubaix region in northern France.

19.   French police uncovered the network by accident, going after what they thought was a gang carrying out violent robberies in the Roubaix region.

20.   Gov. Sutiyoso was quoted by The Jakarta Post Monday as saying that the wearing of expensive jewelry, for instance, could provoke violent robberies.