Sentence examples for compassionate killing from inspiring English sources

The mens rea (mental element) of murder was long held to be "malice aforethought", which took on a meaning only of the required mental state for murder, since malice aforethought required neither malice (compassionate killing is still murder) nor aforethought (no premeditation is required).

Some say that using the most humane killing methods available is the best and most compassionate way to act.

It fell into my hands in November 2001, just two months after that "compassionate young man" Osama killed thousands in my office building (I once worked at the World Trade Center).

Please ask the Princes to open their hearts to the suffering of birds casually used as skeet and make the compassionate decision not to kill for fun.

If Osama (someone who justifies killing innocent civilians in the name of God) is not a disbeliever of Islam's compassionate teachings, then who is?

Killing women as well as men is not the road to justice, and it is not compatible with the governor's self-characterization as "compassionate".

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of killing 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 was blown up over the south of Scotland town 25 years ago, was freed from prison in 2009 on compassionate grounds because of cancer.

The Americans, as Peter Sullivan, of Akron, Ohio, quite reasonably put it, "have a tough time being compassionate for a guy who killed two hundred and seventy people….

Mr MacAskill took the controversial decision to free the Libyan - the only person convicted of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988 which killed 270 people - on compassionate grounds.

The Buddha, in a past life as a ship's captain named Super Compassionate, discovered a criminal on board who intended to kill the 500 passengers.

How do we stay sane, compassionate people in the face of this war that kills our children and wreaks havoc with our economy?