Nixon saw his own use of "dirty tricks" as a justifiable self-protective response.
The jury had sought sought clarification on the distinction between "fear" and "passion", the potential difference between a justifiable self-defense claim and a manslaughter conviction.
Jubilation over the death of the most hunted mass murderer is understandable, but was it really justifiable self-defense, or was it premeditated illegal assassination?
I'm not even talking about the lack of context by which Israel is always portrayed as the aggressor, even if it is acting in justifiable self-defence.
During questioning today by Judges David S. Baime, Phillip S. Carchman and John E. Wallace Jr., Mr. Berg said that the state was not required to tell grand jurors about the justifiable self-defense rules for police officers.
Justifiable self-protection has always been linked to the infliction of death upon others.
The county prosecutor said the teen fought with the deputy and was killed in "justifiable self-defense". .
But, according to the FBI, of the approximately 11,000 gun homicides every year, on average less than 300 are justifiable self-defense killings.
If it were clear that Bin Laden was "threatening to use a weapon to kill," then his shooting is justifiable as self-defense, Mr. Robertson conceded.
In the discussion of what he described in the Provincial Letters as the 'perniciously lax' morality of the Jesuits, Pascal classifies many human actions — such as homicide, in cases where is it not justifiable as self-defence — as obviously immoral, and as widely recognised as such.
The statistical facts demonstrate that the introduction of a gun into a household is far more likely to result in a death by accident, suicide, or homicide from a family member than it is to be used in a justifiable act of self defense".
