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In a world where abortion past, say, the 20th week of gestation was totally prohibited, people who currently consider themselves anti-abortion or hold that abortion involves wrongful killing might find themselves on the opposite side of the "choice/life" dichotomy without changing their substantive views one whit.(Photo credit: AFP).

Wrongful killing may always be wrong, but is killing?

Similarly, when he says that murder and theft are always wrong, he does not mean that wrongful killing and taking are wrong, but that the current system of laws regarding these matters ought to be strictly enforced.

Acquitted of criminal charges, he was convicted of wrongful killing in a civil trial.

When a journalist with a state newspaper spoke publicly about watching a colleague's wrongful killing by a soldier, prosecutors appeared to fabricate a crime to punish the journalist.

Phil Shiner, a lawyer who has led the fight for a public inquiry, said he planned to pursue at least 40 cases of "wrongful killing".

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By that logic, shouldn't a wrongful police killing justify eliminating the option of the police carrying guns?

As attorney general, the younger Mr. Cuomo was appointed to take over the wrongful conviction investigation of Marty Tankleff, who was convicted of killing his parents, Seymour and Arlene Tankleff.

The Daily News reports that $5.9 million is the largest wrongful death settlement related to a police officer–involved killing in the city's history.

His father, Stanley K. Patz, sought the declaration so he could pursue a wrongful death suit against the man he suspects of abducting and killing Etan, a pedophile serving time in Pennsylvania.

Andrew Jacobs (NYT) HACKENSACK: CIVIL SUIT AGAINST MURDERER -- Using a new state law for which she had lobbied, the mother of a slain 7-year-old 7-year-old 7-year-old-death civil suit yesterday agirlst the man convicted ofiled killing.

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