The phrase "accountable for killing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is being held responsible for a death or act of violence.
Example: "The court found him accountable for killing the victim during the altercation."
Alternatives: "responsible for the death" or "liable for the killing."
General Selim Idris said the deal would allow Assad to escape being held accountable for killing hundreds with poison gas.
The New York police must be held accountable for killing unarmed black men, Mr. Sharpton says, and that means bringing in federal monitors.
Activists said the verdicts mean that no one has been held directly accountable for killing the nearly 1,000 people who died during the revolt.
He said the verdict proved to the city and the country that a white police officer can be held accountable for killing a black person.
Police officers are so rarely held accountable for killing even unarmed black and brown people, that no one was really surprised at the outcome this time.
The verdicts are likely to further inflame public anger over the pace of efforts to hold former officials accountable for killing more than 800 people during the country's revolution.
Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, wants the Blackwater mercenaries to be held accountable in Iraq for killing 11 and wounding 12 civilians in last week's wild shooting in Baghdad, and US diplomats do everything they can to prevent this.
The drug task force that performed the raid was abolished four months later, but they sure weren't held accountable for nearly killing a toddler.
The foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud al-Faisal, said that international armed intervention in Syria had to be ruled out, but those responsible for killing innocent civilians had to be held accountable.
Families of those killed are still burdened with seeking truth and justice, while perpetrators are rarely held accountable for unlawful killings.
The unusual action comes as the result of a growing anger by lawmakers, surviving family members and even senior military officials that no one had been held accountable for the incident, which killed 26 people, including 15 Americans.
