Sentence examples for was committed in a from inspiring English sources
His brother's crime was committed in a period before peace seemed possible, he added.
1127, 1137, 41 L.Ed. 289 (1896) ("although this question was not properly raised, yet if a plain error was committed in a matter so absolutely vital to defendants, we feel ourselves at liberty to correct it").
It is a crime, in Denmark, as in Belgium, to join or train with any terrorist organization, whether or not the government can prove a violent act was committed in a distant war zone.
In that case, the court said, "sabotage was committed in a very simple way in 2006 and 2007 by opening the overground valves with a monkey wrench," something that "Shell Nigeria could and should have prevented".
So if a crime against humanity had become in some sense "banal" it was precisely because it was committed in a daily way, systematically, without being adequately named and opposed.
Ex post facto law, law that retroactively makes criminal conduct that was not criminal when performed, increases the punishment for crimes already committed, or changes the rules of procedure in force at the time an alleged crime was committed in a way substantially disadvantageous to the accused.
Federal law requires prosecutors seeking the death penalty to prove that a crime was committed in "an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner".
After Mr. Ring was convicted of murder, the jury was discharged and the judge went on to find two aggravating circumstances: that the murder was committed for financial gain and that it was committed in an especially heinous or depraved manner.
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in last year's Boston Marathon bombing, saying in court papers that the deadly plot was committed in an "especially heinous, cruel and depraved manner".
I believe the money is an unnecessary validation that a crime was committed, in-order to profit in a monetary way aka evidence.
A murder is committed in a panicked frenzy.
