Can We Kill the Phrase “Brutally Murdered”?

The media are guilty of overkill with the phrase "brutally murdered." Let's snuff it out, posthaste.by Dave SegalJesus Fucking Christ, not again!
As an American who’s been alive since JFK was fooling around in the White House, I have had the unseemly privilege of reading about murder in newspapers and magazines for almost five decades. And maybe you’ve noticed this, too, but 99.98 percent of the time, when a human life is ended by violence, the reporter uses the phrase “brutall