1.   It is widely conjectured that Stalin himself planned the murder of Kirov.

2.   I think that the most likely of the four possibilities was that Stalin planned the murder with Nikolaev to commit it for him.

3.   Bennett and Stanley, who allegedly planned the murder, could face the death penalty if convicted, authorities said.

4.   He admitted he was at a meeting at which the murder of the store owner was planned, and he was outside the store when the killings occurred.

5.   She begins to suspect it was not some anonymous killer who randomly selected a jogger on a soggy morning, but somebody who knew Isabel and planned her murder.

6.   The boys have carefully planned the murder to throw suspicion onto a school janitor.

7.   Authorities then downgraded the charge against Bykov from murder to planning a murder.

8.   But in Japan, a conviction on charges of merely planning a murder carries only a two-year prison sentence.

9.   But he left notes confessing the shooting, saying he planned the murder and framed his brother to extort money from him.

10.   He left behind notes confessing to the slaying, saying he planned the murder and framed his brother.