Sentence examples for amounted to murder from inspiring English sources

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.

You brought his life to an end without any motive in circumstances which you know amounted to murder…" Since his mother died, Ben Gunn had been forever escaping the rules and authority that had closed in on him, climbing out of windows, scarpering down driveways.

An expert witness frequently called to give evidence in the trials of mothers accused of murdering their children argued that the odds of more than one cot death in a family were statistically so slim that three such deaths amounted to murder.

At a recent hearing, however, a Riverside County judge said that while the circumstances of Gary Benefield's death were "troubling to say the least," she wasn't sure they 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".

In one day he was told by a beer-clutching middle-aged man to "kill" his opponent and by an elderly woman that his position generally favoring abortion rights amounts to murder.

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.

In a country with HIV prevalence of 7percentthishis potentially amounts to murder with no judicial redress.

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.