in cold blood/ cold-blooded

chladnokrevně, chladnokrevný

It is clear that Professor Wybran has been assassinated in cold blood because he was a Jew, it said. Fifty years after the Holocaust, a Jewish leader is killed in the heart of the capital of Europe .

Finally, he sighed heavily and continued speaking. Your parents' death was no accident, Mikhail. They were shot down in cold blood with their friends, by the KGB.

Four generations of Glynns, and the fourth of the dynasty had got himself murdered in his own office; no heat-of-the-moment crime either, but a carefully planned murder executed in cold blood out of hatred, or fear, or obsessive greed.

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