Sentence examples for willful killing from inspiring English sources

Even some observers who argue that the bears have indeed recovered from the brink of extinction have expressed concern about how the states will manage what is known as "discretionary mortality," or the willful killing of bears by hunting or in response to preying on livestock.

After many years of unlimited killing of wolves, Croatia inaugurated protections in 1995 that include fines of $6,000 for the willful killing of wolves.

It now allows field commanders to act without awaiting confirmation from their superiors; at the same time, the directive's language was tempered to make clear that it does not call for the willful killing of captured soldiers.

The three officers are charged with "murders, willful killing, willfully causing great suffering and inhumane treatment," the tribunal said, adding that the victims were mostly Bosnian Croat prisoners of war and civilians.

A United Nations panel of human rights experts has accused Israel of war crimes through willful killing, unnecessary brutality and torture in its "clearly unlawful" assault on a ship attempting to break the blockade of Gaza in May in which nine Turkish activists died.

Three local Baath Party officials from Dujail — Abdullah Kadhim Ruweid, his son Mizher Abdullah Ruweid and Ali Dayeh Ali — were also found guilty of willful killing, forcible deportation, and torture for their role in the repression at Dujail and sentenced to 15-year prison terms.

That year, there were 10.8 willful killings per 100,000 people.

He was sentenced to the death penalty for willful killings, 10 years for forcible deportation and 10 years for torture.

Willful killings of civilians that are not required by military necessity are grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and are considered war crimes under the Nuremberg principles.

"In response to the Palestinian protests," he said, "Israel, the occupying power, has used its huge war machine to launch a bloody campaign of repression against our people, including a number of willful killings, including several children, and willfully causing numerous serious injuries and great pain for the civilians".

One makes the willful, deliberate and premeditated killing of more than one person in a three-year period a capital offense.