Slay Living

(Player's Handbook v.3.5, page 280, DnD 3.5)

Necromancy[Death]

Level: ; Cleric 5; Death Master 5; Dread Necromancer 5; , Death 5, ; , Abyss 5
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Living creature touched
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial
Spell Resistance: Yes

You can slay any one living creature.
You must succeed on a melee touch attack to touch the subject, and it can avoid death with a successful Fortitude save.
If it succeeds, it instead takes 3d6 points of damage +1 point per caster level.
(Of course, the subject might die from damage even if it succeeds on its save).