Cruz said he would be introducing legislation to outlaw the possibility of killing US citizens absent any imminent threat.
The possibility of killing an innocent man set off Illinois's struggle in 2000 and drew the attention of other states' leaders.
He said he was particularly intrigued by the possibility of killing mosquitoes without insecticides, which can be costly and harmful to the environment.
In the most puzzling and controversial section of her judgment, Judge Masipa said the athlete's intention was to shoot, not to kill, and the prosecution had failed to establish that he "accepted the possibility of killing someone".
After the war, however, Israel began investigating the possibility of killing Mr. Hussein, and the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, approved a detailed study in 1992, according to reports in the nation's leading newspapers, including Maariv and Yediot Ahronot.
The witness said Mr Duffy had often discussed the possibility of killing Mr Adair.
We put almost all of our eggs in very few baskets this had the possibility of killing us.
She also said the prosecution had not proven that he "accepted the possibility of killing someone" when he fired a gun four times through the toilet door.
In any event, in view of concerns about the possibility of killing in the course of organ procurement, physicians wanted clear legal guidance for determining when someone had died.
Schmitt claims that one cannot judge, from an external perspective, that a group is morally unjustified in defining its own identity in a certain way and to introduce political enmity, with the attendant possibility of killing, to preserve that identity.
