Sentence examples similar to voluntary killing from inspiring English sources
Sceptics anticipate this will lead to the violation of the rights particularly of vulnerable patient groups, ic the least educated, resulting in disproportionately more non-voluntary "mercy killing" in these patients (termed the slippery slope argument) [ 7- 9].
Jurors at Portsmouth circuit court found Stephen Rankin guilty of voluntary manslaughter for killing William Chapman in April last year.
An Ivy League professor pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for killing his wife last year as she wrapped Christmas presents, telling a judge that he "just lost it" during an argument.
About three years ago, a white officer with the Charlotte Police Department was charged with voluntary manslaughter for killing an unarmed 24-year-old black man named Jonathan Ferrell.
Whether behavior is described in terms of acts or omissions (a distinction which underpins the alleged difference between active and passive voluntary euthanasia and that between killing a person and letting her die), is often a matter of pragmatics rather than anything of deeper moral importance.
Voluntary manslaughter is defined as killing without a prior intent and during a sudden quarrel or heat of passion.
This could be due the increased awareness among higher educated that the historical charged term of "euthanasia" was used also to describe the in-voluntary killing of disabled children and adults during the Nazi regime in Austria (1938 1945).
Suicide is defined as the act of killing oneself in a voluntary way.
Officer Kerrick was charged with voluntary manslaughter, which under North Carolina law involves killing without malice using "excessive force" in exercising "imperfect self-defense".
In 1997, he initiated federal legislation to override another self-governing territory, killing off a Northern Territory law allowing voluntary euthanasia.
The provisions of the Paris accord are voluntary – a necessary step to stop the Republican-controlled US Congress from killing it.
