Meanings of willful murder in English

The Fifth Commandment forbids all willful murder, fighting, anger, hatred, revenge, and bad example.

Ambrose and Silas Meadowcroft were charged before the magistrate with the willful murder of John Jago.

To have a connection gibbeted for a willful murder would be an ugly blot on the Carlyle escutcheon, Cornelia.

It was Thorn did the deed, beyond all doubt, and the verdict ought to have been willful murder against him.

My grandfather was tried on a charge of committing willful murder-wasfound guilty on the clearest evidence-anddied on the scaffold by the hangman's hands.

A willful murder was a rare occurrence before the days of whiskey and drunken rows, for we were not a violent or a quarrelsome people.

Willful murder, poisoning, parricide, were capitally punished.

On the same day the jury agreed on their verdict: " Willful murder against some person unknown."

Coroner's finding: Willful Murder.

"Well," drawled Jones, "if Skinner didn't commit willful murder, I'd hate to see him hang.

The baby showed "... marks of violence as though occasioned by the strong pressure of fingers on the neck." Coroner's finding: Willful Murder.

There was but a short consultation between the jurors, who at once returned a verdict of " Willful murder by some person or persons unknown."