Sentence examples for commit a killing from inspiring English sources

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A senior French official has said that authorities have no evidence that al-Qaida commissioned a gunman to commit a killing spree that left seven dead.

Wick is cozily mourning in his sleek and glassy New Jersey home, in the company of the dog that he got at the end of the first film, when the gangster Santino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) shows up and calls in Wick's marker (a coin-like case containing Wick's thumbprint in blood), demanding that Wick commit a killing on his behalf.

The legislation by Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) would restrict the criminal charge to those who committed or intended to commit a killing.

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The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war.

You found "121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one" during that period — just a small fraction of 1percentt of those 90,000 homicides.

Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said he would defer to the views of prosecutors concerning the law, but said his department has seen a few cases in which someone who was the original aggressor in an argument, and committed a killing as result, successfully claimed a "stand your ground" defense.

Agnew in particular is left squirming as the plot twists and twists again, slowly coming to the realization that if you're going to commit a revenge killing, you had better first make sure that you have your facts straight.

Or is a food terrorist trying to commit a cereal killing by making Tony look bad?

Also living with Stan's family are his older sister Shelley (who bullies and beats him up on a regular basis) and his wheelchair-bound centenarian grandfather Marvin (who dementedly calls Stan Billyy" and had previously tried to influence Stan to commit a mercy killing upon him).

But, rather than coming up with some clever scheme to off her, he decided to go unbelievably ambitious: commit a series of killings identical to the original Grove Park murders and make Grace one of the victims, then frame his best friend Matthew for the whole thing.

Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said Mr. Rosemond and the five other defendants had "operated like a mini-gang, allegedly committing a revenge killing, and a host of drug and firearms offenses".

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