Sentence examples for cases of killing from inspiring English sources

He immediately added, "But when you get below the example of a charismatic mega-vertebrate" — a storybook species — "and go to animals that are a little less special, there are cases of killing".

Not all cases of killing someone receive equally harsh sentences; a wide variation occurs based on motive and other psychological factors, which do have to be determined in a trial: was it necessity, premeditated, the heat of passion, adequate provocation, etc.? A killing motivated by hatred of an entire group is particularly despicable, and should receive a particularly severe sentence.

Secondly, there are obvious counterexamples to this crude account morally appalling cases of letting die failing to feed one's children and morally acceptable cases of killing.

The same kind of argument can be made for cases of killing in self-defense when overwhelming and lethal force is used.

Clear cases of killing fall on the positive side of all of the candidate distinctions, clear cases of allowing death fall on the negative side of all the distinctions; indeterminate cases fall on one side of one distinction and on the other side of another distinction.

Western history's coverage of our relationships with Aboriginal/Indigenous peoples has mostly been reporting on western cases of killing and cultural annihilation.

Unesco's report indicates that, especially in the Arab world and many countries in Africa, deaths are frighteningly common with a very low rate of solving cases of killed journalists.

These uses of animals are so institutionalized, so normalized, in our society that it is difficult to find the critical distance needed to see them as the horrors that they are: so many forms of subjection, servitude and — in the case of killing animals for human consumption and other purposes — outright murder.

Unpicking the game's conspiracies is mostly a case of killing all those involved, with your job turning from that of multiple blade-carrying delivery boy to hired killer as formative fetch-and-carry missions give way to the story proper.

NEW ORLEANS — Citing "grotesque prosecutorial misconduct" on the part of federal lawyers here and in Washington, a judge on Tuesday threw out the 2011 convictions of five former police officers who had been found guilty in a momentous civil rights case of killing two citizens and engaging in an extensive cover-up in the days after Hurricane Katrina.

Mario Alessi told the appeal of a prison confession made to him by Rudy Guede, who was also convicted, in a separate case, of killing Miss Kercher.