hold somebody culpable

An example of a moral evil might be murder, or any other evil event for which someone can be held responsible or culpable.

Nevertheless, a defendant who successfully argues involuntary intoxication will not be held culpable for actions they carried out while intoxicated.

If this does not work they cannot be held culpable.

Later, I learned that I and members of my family could be held culpable.

Roscoe was uneasily aware that he was held culpable in some quarters for Jake's escape.

In modern times, it is considered in most criminal justice systems that non-human creatures lack moral agency and so cannot be held culpable for an act.

He would not be held culpable in the circumstances.

Psychiatrists are divided as to whether these men can be held culpable for their actions.

Those who became pregnant were held morally culpable for having got themselves into "trouble," as if their seducers or traducers were in no way responsible.

The Clintons, it seems, had the intelligence to be held culpable for their actions.