Sentence examples for justification for killing from inspiring English sources

In Wednesday's Washington Post, John Podesta wrote that despite the Holder postcard, "the White House is still bobbing and weaving on whether to share with Congress the legal opinions and memorandums governing targeted killing, which include the legal justification for killing U.S. citizens without trial.

There is no justification for killing children.

"In their twisted minds, this was a justification for killing".

(He apparently resisted capture, which offered an additional justification for killing him).

In particular, it rejected "pre-emptive self-defense" as a justification for killing terrorism suspects far from combat zones.

That a few red shirts were armed will be used as justification for killing those who were not.

When we hear justifications for killing Americans the White House has decided are terrorists, whom do we see in our mind's eye?

In the case of Morgan James Smith in 1999, Lord Hoffman noted that historically one of the legal justifications for killing due to losing self-control had been finding a wife in adultery.

The justifications for killing Al-Awlaki will continue, but in the meantime, little has been said about the death of his companion, also a U.S. citizen.

"More black people [in total] are killed – disproportionately to their rate in the population – and although the numbers are hard to assess, the reality is that black women are vulnerable to the same justifications used for killing black men," says Crenshaw.

No justification can exist for killing a man in cold blood, of course.