(a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.
(a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.
(n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(2) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(3) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(4) The evidence – which was obtained through an ongoing criminal investigation – was then put to McRoberts by the NT government “and his reaction was to resign”.
(5) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(6) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(7) "At the moment there are about 1,600 criminal justice firms, and they all have a contract with the lord chancellor.
(8) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(9) We need to be confident that the criminal justice system takes child abuse seriously.
(10) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
(11) This raises questions about police integrity and News International's power to distort procedure in a serious criminal matter.
(12) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(13) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(14) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(15) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(16) Last week, the Daily Mail reported that judges at the human rights court had handed 202 criminals "taxpayer-funded payouts of £4.4m – an average of £22,000 a head".
(17) He added: "Those responsible for the murders of Fiona, Nicola, Mark and David Short are established criminals who are a scourge on our society.
(18) "We are aware of potential infiltration by criminal groups in government sectors.
(19) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
(20) The FBI’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be,” the RNC chairman, Reince Priebus, said in a statement.
Executioner
Definition:
(n.) One who executes; an executer.
(n.) One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Personally, I sometimes wish drugs would be made legal so that the gringos can get high and we can live in peace," said Tijuana police officer Elisio Montes, whose two best friends, his former boss and assistant, were murdered by executioners for the cartels.
(2) Afterwards, the camera played over the faces of the executioners, ensuring that the foreign fighters were clearly visible and sparking a rush to name them.
(3) Maurie Levin, one of a team of lawyers working on the new Texas litigation, said that “if nothing else, Mr Lockett’s execution in Oklahoma makes clear that you can’t simply take the word of the executioner that everything will be OK. Access to information is necessary to be able to determine whether we are at risk of an execution like what happened last night.” The second scheduled execution is that of Russell Bucklew, 45, in Missouri on 21 May.
(4) The book is as much a history of the executed as of the executioners.
(5) Mass killings, Himmler said, were a heroic task requiring great courage, loyalty to the Führer and ability to bear the suffering involved in being an executioner.
(6) Messi's incisions into Nigeria's half were as sharp and deep as a executioner's blade.
(7) In his autobiography, Executioner (1974), he expressed regret about his life's work.
(8) Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars Read more A surge in executions began towards the end of the reign of King Abdullah, who died in January.
(9) We need restraint from the police in situations like Eric’s and Michael Brown in Ferguson – not a police officer acting as judge, jury and executioner – we need that kind of crime out of our police departments across the country.” The veteran civil rights campaigner Al Sharpton called on the crowd not to oppose the police department per se, but to call on New York mayor Bill de Blasio to reform it.
(10) He was the lead executioner for Isis, and let us never forget he killed many, many Muslims too.
(11) First, he escaped his designated fate because the executioners decided there were not enough Jews in his consignment to warrant firing up the machinery of mass murder.
(12) The IRA concealed a 500lb bomb inside a car and detonated it as Gibson drove past, then issued a statement in which they condemned the judge for supporting “RUC executioners” and said that he too had been brought to the “final court of justice”.
(13) At moments it almost seems so: as if Roper actually enjoys being a partner in his own destruction, just for the pleasure of pairing with someone as intelligent and ruthless as himself; almost as if he’s a little in love with his own executioner.
(14) Many are being trained as spies, preachers, soldiers, “executioners” and suicide bombers.
(15) An unnamed boss leading the rite in police videos published on Italian newspaper websites can be heard telling the new Santa that they are now expected to be their own executioners should they stray from the ’Ndrangheta’s code.
(16) He refused to wear a blindfold so, it is said, he could look his executioners - who were also his comrades - in the eye.
(17) Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, described rules such as Missouri’s as a “distortion” of the principle of anonymity for executioners.
(18) Steve Fielding sketches the outline of the family story in Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners, The Story of Britain's Infamous Hangmen (2006).
(19) The people behind Nemtsov’s assassination know how useful it is to use Chechens as executioners, given the predictable reaction from Kadyrov, it means the investigators never get further.” That explains why, although Kadyrov has been fingered for the Nemtsov killing, many people blame someone higher: his boss in the Kremlin, the man who created the environment in which Kadyrov thrives.
(20) A sole “executioner” to turn prosecutor’s evidence at the trials, Dražen Erdemovic, described how death squads asked to sit down – they were so tired, killing wave upon wave, busload after busload, of men and boys.