Sentence examples for state-sanctioned killing from inspiring English sources

It's time for the Supreme Court to end state-sanctioned killing for good.

"State-sanctioned killing," Justice Stevens said, was "becoming more and more anachronistic".

"State-sanctioned killing is... becoming more and more anachronistic," he wrote, and he proceeded to show that all of the purported justifications for the death penalty — deterrence, retribution — failed in practice.

"For the court to imprison her until she is broken, until her will is broken, and she abandons her faith and her view that she cannot participate in state-sanctioned killing is an abomination," Newman said during the news conference.

Anti-culling campaigners last night suggested such restrictions would effectively torpedo state-sanctioned killing of any of Britain's badgers, estimated at more than 300,000, while farmers' leaders insisted they could still work with government to devise effective culls.

"As a just and compassionate society we can find better ways to deal with the suffering which do not draw us into providing state-sanctioned killing," the ACL managing director, Lyle Shelton, said.

In the provinces there are whispered claims of state-sanctioned killings.

These state-sanctioned killings were generally referred to as "work," or "clearing the bush".

State-sanctioned killings, invariably against major terrorist organisations or well-armed enemies of the state, are done by others.

Many believe these cases exhibit the state-sanctioned killings of young African-American men.

On Monday, representatives from a community in active struggle against state sanctioned killing, violence and repression met with the President of the United States of America.