Hit-and-run is a vile crime, even when it results in little more than a shoulder bruise.

Has there ever been a crime so vile as mass abortion?

If the authorities were alerted immediately, they could come and arrest them all at the scene of their vile crime.

Now, he turned to the defense attorney, and said, "What is the witness's plea to this vile crime?"

So much for the American notion that even those accused of the vilest crimes have a right to competent counsel.

Television has made the pursuit of justice - especially when vile crimes are involved - a spectator sport, and a profitable one.

We have a man suspected of vile crimes who is under the protection of international law.

This is why child pornographers and drug dealers have been able to get away with their vile crimes for so long.

In 2010 he described it as "one of history's vilest crimes .

These vile crimes must be combated with all our energy, whatever their level of seriousness.