For example, in 1791 the North Carolina legislature made the willful killing of a slave murder, unless done in resisting or under moderate correction.

After many years of unlimited killing of wolves, Croatia inaugurated protections in 1995 that include fines of $6,000 for the willful killing of wolves.

The willful, deliberate and premeditated killing of any person in the commission of a robbery equals capital murder equals death penalty.

A deliberate, premeditated, and willful killing.

However, many of the civilian deaths documented amounted to unlawful or willful killings by the IDF according to Human Rights Watch.

Also found guilty of willful killing and torture.

One count of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions (Article 2 of the Statute - willful killing).

One makes the willful, deliberate and premeditated killing of more than one person in a three-year period a capital offense.

Murder perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait or torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing.

Southern slave codes did make willful killing of a slave illegal in most cases.