Extrajudicial killing
Murder without trial
Extrajudicial killing is the deliberate killing of a person by government authorities or agents acting outside the law, without legal process or judicial oversight.
Such killings bypass arrest, trial, and sentencing—the accused is simply executed.
The term appears most often in human rights contexts to describe state-sponsored assassinations, death squad activity, or summary executions.
Human rights groups documented dozens of extrajudicial killings during the crackdown.
- forced disappearanceState-concealed detention or killing
- truth commissionsOfficial bodies investigating past atrocities
- assassinationMurder of a prominent figure
- human rights violationBreach of fundamental dignities
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
war crimes · authoritarianism · torture · impunity · ethnic cleansing · death squads · Geneva Conventions · lynching · firing squad · arbitrary detention · night raids · political repression · poisoning · summary execution · international law · paramilitary groups · drone strikes · kill list
Extrajudicial killingjudicial execution
State-administered death penalty
capital punishment · legal execution · death sentence · fair trial · due process
Extrajudicial killingpublic trial
Court case with observers
legal accountability · rule of law · due process · judicial review · judicial oversight
Extrajudicial killingrule of law
Supremacy of established laws
legal order · equal protection · habeas corpus · limited government · judicial restraint
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