premeditation

How To Use premeditation In A Sentence

• The criteria in establishing a serial murder is that there must be planning, premeditation.
• What you think is "premeditation" and what actually counts as such under law are likely two very different things. "I did shift from being against the death penalty to thinking that if it has a significant deterrent effect it’s probably justified."
• This is an aggravated offense, in that there was some level of premeditation in other words, not a random testosterone fueled engagement between two meatheads over a girl and due to the 6 on 1 engagement...again, not “boys being boys” but a beatdown. The Volokh Conspiracy » Should We Be Blogging About the “Jena 6″?:
• For their speeches are either premeditate, in _verbis conceptis_, where nothing is left to invention, or merely extemporal, where little is left to memory; whereas in life and action there is least use of either of these, but rather of intermixtures of premeditation and invention, notes and memory. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
• Clearly, although it may not be fair to point to these actions as "premeditation" for murder, it is certainly worth noting that the kid had a temper problem out of his realm of control. Baltiblogs
• It should be noted, however, that malice aforethought is a technical term whose meaning implies neither ill-will nor premeditation.
• The judge finally concluded there was insufficient evidence of premeditation.
• His playing suggests precision without premeditation, which is one WN.com - Business News
• But if they ` re going to go after the death penalty here they ` ve got to show premeditation, deliberation and they ` ve got to show some kind of heinousness, something that justifies the most severe punishment that we know in American law. CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2009
• Furthermore, we are by no means satisfied that there was no premeditation.