Extrajudicial killing
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An extrajudicial killing (also known as extrajudicial execution) is the killing of a person by governmental authorities without the sanction of any judicial proceeding or legal process. Extrajudicial punishments are mostly seen by humanity to be unethical, since they bypass the due process of the legal jurisdiction in which they occur. Extrajudicial killings often target leading political, trade union, dissident, religious, and social figures and are only those carried out by the state government or other state authorities like the armed forces or police, as extra-legal fulfillment of their prescribed role.
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See also
- Arbitrary arrest and detention
- Assassination
- Deadly force
- Death squad
- Encounter killing
- Extraordinary rendition
- Human rights
- Iraq war
- Israeli targeted killings
- Jungle justice
- List of killings by law enforcement officers
- Lynching
- Mahmoud Salah
- Manhunt (law enforcement)
- Manhunt (military)
- Outlaw
- Police misconduct
- Police killings in the United States
- Posse comitatus (common law)
- Prison rape
- Summary execution
- Targeted killing
- Terrorism
- The Troubles
- Vigilante
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