"To convict the killer" means to prove in a court of law that the person accused of a murder is guilty and should be punished for their crime. Full definition
Even in a perfect system, killing convicted killers to deter others from killing simply is nonsense. (lawyer-monthly.com)
Most of the true - life intrigue is drained from this tedious big - screen drama about Gary Tison (Robert Patrick), a notorious convicted killer who escaped from an Arizona prison in 1978 after his sons carried a cooler full of firearms into a jail visit. (cinemalogue.com)
The moves come nearly two years after two convicted killers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York, leading to a three - week manhunt that led to one of the escapees, Richard Matt, being killed by police and the other, David Sweat, being captured. (wgrz.com)