Sentence examples for approved a murder from inspiring English sources
In a 1986 decision, the justices approved a murder conviction based on a confession, even though the police did not tell the suspect that his sister had arranged for a lawyer.
It was during that time that investigators were told by an informant that Benjamin Arellano Felix had approved a "hit," or murder contract, on Curiel, according to Vega.
Last month, a French court approved a request from Panama to send him back home to be jailed over his convictions for murder, corruption and embezzlement.
President Vladimir Putin probably approved the murder of the spy Alexander Litvinenko, an inquiry found today in a decision likely to spark a furious diplomatic reaction from Russia.
But some of the most explosive evidence has only recently come to light, including documents detailing conversation in which Mr. Patriarca approved the murder.
He thought we could easily dispense with the word "probably" from the report's assertion that Putin had probably approved the murder, and that we ought to be seizing Russian assets in the Bahamas and Switzerland instead of pussyfooting around.
Harding said Owen's shocking conclusion that Putin knew about and probably approved the murder of Litvinenko was based in large part on secret material presented to the enquiry by unnamed witnesses in closed sessions held last May.
The official conclusion that Vladimir Putin "probably approved" the murder of the former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 has again raised uncomfortable questions about Russian exceptionalism – and how best to handle relations with what many conservative western politicians regard as a rogue regime in Moscow.
In line with the Kremlin's narrative surrounding the results of the inquiry, which concluded that President Vladimir Putin is likely to have approved the murder, Mr Lavrov criticised the use of the word "probably" in the report and warned that the "circus surrounding the Litvinenko case" will hurt relations between Russia and the UK.
Mr Siniora has been pushing ahead with plans to approve a special international court to try suspects for the murder, last year, of a former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri.
