Wrongful Death Quotes

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

it is better to mistakenly kill an innocent person then to mistakenly spare an enemy.

If somebody gets injured, they ought to have their day in court.

My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.

There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.

I just didn't believe the God that I served would allow me to die for something I didn't do.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.