nonkilling

Not engaging in killing.

Hunger does not normally induce frog killing in a nonkilling laboratory rat. However, if that rat has had the experience of watching a rat kill frogs, ....

I'm a nonkilling accomplice in a felony murder — a robbery-murder. ... It's a defense to felony murder, for nonkilling accomplices

Lack of killing; permitting to live.

[…] respect of harmlessness to living beings and nonkilling of living beings.

Buddhist belief inculcates nonkilling of sentient life […]

An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar effect).

[…] then its death is a moral wrong even if the result of "nonkillings" will be a marked decrease in the population of that part of the animal kingdom.

But actions in the world don't come neatly dividing into killings and nonkillings: the gray area of the concept shades smoothly