He pointed out the lack of a close relationship between Mr. McIntosh and Mrs. Williams's 23-year-old daughter, Eunice, stressing instead the "particularly heinous" manner in which the point-blank shootings took place.

In imposing a death sentence, the trial judge found that the murder had been committed "in an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner."

In Mr. Moussaoui's case, the new indictment said, the aggravating factors include the "exceptional heinous, cruel and depraved manner" of a terror plot that "involved torture and serious physical abuse to the victims."

The State proved two aggravating factors - that the murder was committed in an "especially heinous, cruel, or depraved manner," and that it was committed for pecuniary gain.

But in 1990 the court sustained an Arizona death sentence based on a finding that the murder had been committed "in an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner."

Bethany - An old girlfriend of Patrick's whom, after a date, he murders in a particularly heinous manner.

Those circumstances, the court declared, clearly amounted to crimes committed "in an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner," as the law defines one aggravating factor.

Federal law requires prosecutors seeking the death penalty to prove that a crime was committed in "an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner."

Second, the judge found that the offense was committed "in an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner."

To suggest I require foreign assistance is to besmirch my honor in the most heinous manner imaginable.