justifiable homicide
Britishnoun
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In September, nearly two years after the shooting, Las Vegas detectives concluded the shooting was a justifiable homicide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Claims of justifiable homicide in self-defense depend on the “reasonable” perception of threat that a defendant experienced when they used lethal violence.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2021
Did investigators treat the shooting as a potential murder, or as a justifiable homicide?
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2020
George Barnhill Sr., a prosecutor from nearby Waycross, was given the case, but told investigators the killing was a justifiable homicide.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2020
There is no recorded instance of the justifiable homicide of an American girl in her theatre hat.
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead
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