Sentence examples for merciful killing from inspiring English sources

But while his paintings occasionally resemble the storyboard for a film, switching between wide shots of the landscape and close-ups of the principal characters, and focusing on important dramatic moments such as Kelly's merciful killing of a mortally wounded police sergeant at Stringybark Creek, the cycle is also stranger and more ambitious than a straightforward illustration of real events.

After Wun Wun helped the Night's Watch army take Winterfell back -- and after he suffered a progressively more traumatic series of arrow wounds -- Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) performed perhaps the only somewhat merciful killing of his horrible life, spearing the giant through the eye, ending his suffering. .

In some towns, the invaders were more merciful; they just killed the heretics.

Many have implied that a caregiver killing his wife and then himself is merciful.

As far as Wilson's concerned, "just killing Oliver is too simple and too merciful, quite frankly," Guggenheim said.

Some American eugenicists argued for killing the "unfit," and a few indeed practiced it by subjecting newborns to euthanasia (not a merciful death for those in pain, Black points out, but a painless death for those "deemed unworthy of life").

OSLO — Convicted of killing 77 people in a horrific bombing and shooting attack in July last year, the Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik was sentenced on Friday to 21 years in prison — fewer than four months per victim — ending a case that thoroughly tested this gentle country's collective commitment to values like tolerance, nonviolence and merciful justice.

To this Salome, Herod's closing words — "Kill that woman!" — may sound merciful.

"Don't kill yourself, because God is merciful," the artist wrote.

A verse in the Quran instructs, ' And do not kill yourselves, surely God is most merciful to you.' [ 23] On the other hand, however, the low suicide rate may also be caused by potential under-reporting in terms of poor data quality of many developing countries [ 24] and social stigma associated with suicide [ 25].

On the subject of suicide, the Koran could hardly be clearer: "Do not kill yourselves; for surely God has been merciful to you".