'unwarranted killing' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a killing that is unjustified or wrong, or done without an appropriate cause. For example: The police condemned the unwarranted killing of an unarmed man in protest.
As the horrible images unfolded before him, he began to shake uncontrollably, and he found himself back in the Philippines witnessing what he believed was the unwarranted killing of a Japanese officer.
International humanitarian law has advanced to the stage where the unwarranted killing of protected people are no longer a purely internal matter.
"Settling for Misconduct," an extensive database from The Chicago Reporter published this week, highlights allegations of Chicago's excessive policing methods, ranging from false arrest to unwarranted killing, particularly in Latino and black communities, leading to 655 settlements in four years.
It doesn't matter that the outcome -- an unwarranted invasion that killed more than 100,000 Iraqis and more than 4,000 Americans, or more than the death toll of 9/11 -- was a preventable disaster.
All this, and more, indicates that this was an unwarranted and precarious shooting that killed an innocent Taiwanese fisherman, for which the Philippine side is totally responsible.Representative Lyushun Shen Taipei representative office in the United Kingdom London SIR – The killing of the Taiwanese fisherman is a criminal and human-rights issue before it is a political and strategic one.
"Those unwise and unwarranted restrictions undermine our counterterrorism efforts and could harm our national security," Mr Holder said, but the families of those killed on 11 September , 2001 have waited too long already for justice, and "it must not be delayed any longer".
But not many beachcombers from up north will ever know firsthand the many layers of poverty and corruption — or acts of unwarranted kindness — experienced by the Canadian journalist J. B. MacKinnon when he spent many months in the Dominican Republic on a quest to unearth what had happened to an uncle, a Catholic priest, inexplicably killed 40 years earlier.
Was that comparison unwarranted?
"The criticism was unwarranted.
Tightening now is unwarranted.
