Sentence examples for killings committed from inspiring English sources

According to the women's campaign group the Aurat Foundation about 1,000 Pakistani women are killed every year in "honour killings" committed by their families.

Amnesty has documented serious human rights violations, including unlawful killings, committed by some AU troops.

Few Lebanese have ever confessed or forgiven — even for the killings committed within their own sectarian ranks.

For months, he had watched YouTube videos of civilian killings committed by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Mr. Klein is on trial for three killings committed during a 1975 attack on an OPEC meeting.

One man suspected of the killings committed suicide only to be cleared long after his death by DNA testing.

That may be why opponents of the punishment are focusing for now on killings committed by very young offenders like Mr. Lotts.

In barring the punishment for killings committed before age 18, Justice Kagan drew on two lines of precedent, both rooted in the court's death penalty jurisprudence.

Although Preston's sympathies are clearly with the doomed Republic, to his credit he is equally thorough in exposing the killings committed under that government.

Gen. Mansour al-Turki said the killings committed by Isis, who most recently beheaded Japanese freelance journalist Kenji Goto, are "arbitrary" during an interview with NBC News.

The memory of killings committed by the French authorities "remains rooted in the minds of Algerians and the French," he said.