Justifiable Homicide Quotes

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

I don't believe in murder.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

Consent is not a defense in the taking of the life of another.

Why should a man have a better right to kill his neighbor with a house than with an axe in the street?

There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. The law allows all people to use deadly force to defend themselves in certain situations.

If a thief commits a theft by night, if the owner kills the thief, the thief shall be killed lawfully

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.

One may slay without hesitation an assassin who approaches with murderous intent…. By killing an assassin the slayer incurs no guilt, whether he does it publicly or secretly; in that case fury recoils upon fury

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.

You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)

… intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable to protect life.