"wilful killing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is synonymous with "intentional killing" and means the same thing. You can use it anytime you need to refer to the premeditated taking of someone's life. For example, "The prosecution presented evidence that the accused had committed wilful killing when he shot the victim."
And though he did find evidence of isolated cases of rape, inhuman treatment and "wilful killing" of civilians, they were not sufficiently widespread to meet the threshold of gravity required.Huge problems still lie ahead for the court, whose "leniency" towards America may disappoint some members.
Mustafa Barghouti, the Palestinian information minister, described the death as a "wilful killing" and called for an investigation.
At that point, the ICC said it had seen evidence suggesting British troops did commit war crimes in Iraq, "namely wilful killing and inhuman treatment".
"The wilful killing of one individual by another is being reported, not the criminal liability of the person or persons involved," he said.
The UNHCR report found "clear evidence to support prosecutions" of crimes under the Geneva Convention, namely wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment and wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health.
The wilful killing of another person is about as extreme and profound a human activity as there is, and, only in theory of course, is within reach of everybody.
An Australian court has found a Japanese whaling company guilty of "wilful contempt" of court for breaching an order to stop killing whales, and has fined it $1m.
This month, an Australian court found the Japanese company that organises the hunts guilty of "wilful contempt" of court for breaching an order to stop killing whales, and fined it A$1m $720,0000), in a case brought by Humane Society International.
The poll comes at the end of a fraught year on the issue of whaling, in which the Japanese whaling company Kyodo Senpaku was fined $1m for "wilful contempt" of the Australian federal court after breaching an order to stop killing whales.
The junta's wilful disregard for the welfare of the 3.4 million survivors of cyclone Nargis – which struck the Irrawaddy delta last May, killing 140,000 people – and a host of other abuses detailed by the research may amount to crimes against humanity under international law.
For instance, he recounts in detail one example of Caravaggio's wilful self-destructiveness. Having killed a man in a duel in Rome, he travelled to Malta, hoping to join the Order of the Knights of St John, with whom he might find freedom and forgiveness.
