Sentence examples for amount to murder from inspiring English sources

If a doctor injected someone who wanted to die with a syringe full of lethal drugs in order to kill them, that would amount to murder.

Evangelical Christians have long argued that life begins at conception, and therefore that medical procedures that disrupt the first stages of pregnancy amount to murder.

There are three main forms of manslaughter in English law: voluntary manslaughter, cases which would otherwise amount to murder but for some legally recognised mitigating factor; and involuntary manslaughter which includes cases of gross negligence manslaughter and unlawful act manslaughter.

At a recent hearing, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Elaine M. Kiefer said she found some practices at the facility "troubling to say the least" but questioned whether they amount to murder.

Lawyers for the British government told the European Court of Human Rights last June that the death could have been prevented and was the result of serious operational failures by police, but said the killing did not amount to murder.

Knight had no eyewitnesses to the murders; his evidence was circumstantial, but he told the court in his opening statement, "What matters is that [the accused] did intentionally suffocate and drown these two innocent children, causing their deaths in circumstances which amount to murder.

The murder rate has levelled off since 1981, but Edna still sometimes writes what amount to murder-roundup stories.

His arrest was illegal, and his treatment in custody amounted to murder and manslaughter, she said.

Mr. Roeder testified that he believed that all abortions amounted to murder and that Dr. Tiller was breaking abortion laws.

Regardless of whether Mr. Minor held the knife or jabbed it, prosecutors have said that his conduct amounted to murder.

We felt that the evidence of brutality showed a deliberate intent to cause death or serious bodily harm to Gemma, which amounts to murder".