`  ::I see your point about the connotations of the word ``killing``, but I think we're safer if we go by dictionary definitions.  The dictionary definition of the word ``killing`` doesn't include an imputation of blame.  This word is used in newspapers all over the world for the action of causing death, precisely because it is neutral as to blame.  see this google news search to see what I mean.  I think it's important to stick to this word so that we can tell which deaths belong on the list and which do not.  For instance, there are cases of deaths in police custody which do not involve any law enforcement officers causing them.  They don't belong on this list, and with your wording, I don't see how we can keep them off.  I piped the word ``killing`` to homicide because it's a legal term, and thus painstakingly defined to be neutral.  I think that if we're going to stick to the sources, we have to use the terminology that's commonly used in the sources.—   `