The phrase "are driven to murder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing motivations or psychological factors that lead individuals to commit murder.
Example: "In extreme cases, individuals may feel that they are driven to murder due to overwhelming circumstances or mental health issues."
Alternatives: "compelled to kill" or "forced to commit murder".
Prosecutors say that he was driven to murder after she ended their relationship.
Even when he is driven to murder, the guilt ultimately belongs to Victor.
Eva has the strong suspicion that Kevin is driven to murder by his parents' impending divorce.
The film's central assassin is driven to murder by exposure to a queen-of-diamonds playing card, which is intended to remind him of his powerful, threatening mother.
In Aeschylus's play Agamemnon, part of his Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra is driven to murder Agamemnon partly to avenge the death of her daughter Iphigeneia, whom Agamemnon had sacrificed for the sake of success in the war, partly because of her adulterous love for Aegisthus and partly as an agent for the curse on Agamemnon's family, the House of Atreus.
In a withering cross-examination that will quite likely go down as the most uncomfortable moment in a trial that has featured many, Ms. Pomodore insinuated last week that Ms. Sheehan had been driven to murder because her husband had forced her to engage in his perverse sexual fantasies, including watching him masturbate while he wore an adult diaper or women's clothes.
Mr. Leventhal spent the morning leading Dr. Borukhova, 35, through the details of the wrenching custody battle, trying to show that Dr. Borukhova was driven to murder by a judge's decision to give temporary custody of their 4-year-old girl, Michelle, to the father.
They became so close that she wrote him into her will, but Tiede said he was driven to murder by her increasingly demanding temperament – he shot her in the back of the head and stored her body amid food in a freezer.
