Sentence examples for constituted murder from inspiring English sources

Mr. Nel tried to regain some of the ground lost on Wednesday, arguing that no matter who Mr. Pistorius thought was behind the bathroom door, the fact that he shot the person constituted murder.

The jury concluded that the failure of the man, Edwin Smith, to tell firefighters that no one was left inside the burning building was so reckless that it constituted murder.

Strachwitz's cousin, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1943, stated that Strachwitz had expressed the belief to him several times that killing Hitler would have constituted murder.

This, according to critics, should constitute murder rather than culpable homicide.

And deliberately taking the life of another person constitutes murder, even if the person is dying and has asked to be killed.

A juror, Jennifer Ford, told ABC News on Wednesday that the jury did not think prosecutors proved their case and that Ms. Anthony's bad behaviordid not constitute murder.

The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, said on Tuesday Duterte's killings, by his own admission, "clearly constitute murder" and Philippine judicial authorities must launch an investigation.

The fact that many, if not a majority, of "this pluralistic nation" disagree with the president about what constitutes murder is not a legitimate reason for the president to stop defending the right to life as he understands it.

Therefore, in my opinion, it is illegal and constitutes murder...the 'war' which is being waged by Israel against Hamas could be said to be brought on by the Israelis against Palestinian will, as Israel did not recognize the legitimate election of the Hamas government".

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?" Rights for apes, the advocates argue, is simply the next step in the development of a moral society where no group is denied its fair place -- whether it has a different skin color or ethnic background, whether it is disabled or mentally impaired, or whether it is covered in hair.

But of course such claims hardly do much work since questions immediately arise about which killings constitute murder and about how different pains should be compared and about which way of treating people counts as treating them equally in the relevant way.