judicial execution
Legal death sentence
Judicial execution is the carrying out of a death sentence imposed by a court of law.
The phrase emphasizes the legal sanction behind the killing, distinguishing it from murder or extrajudicial killing: The state performed its first judicial execution in twenty years.
Also called capital punishment.
- death penaltyLegal execution for crimes
- wrongful convictionsErroneous guilty verdicts
- cruel and unusualExcessively harsh and abnormal
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
- dead man walkingPrisoner heading to execution
innocent man · lethal injection · hanging · public executions · abolitionism · sentencing · firing squad · human rights · sanctity of life · guillotine · gas chamber · green mile · last meal · last words · retributive justice · electric chair · stoning · morality
- capital punishmentdeath penalty, death row, death sentence, lethal injection, electric chair
- debt collectiondebt collection, garnishment, late payments, debt collector, delinquent accounts
judicial executionlynching
Extrajudicial killing by mob
murder · mob justice · assassination · unlawful killing · summary execution
judicial executionpardon
Official release from punishment
commutation · clemency · acquittal · reprieve · exoneration
judicial executionabolition
Formal discontinuation of practice
restorative justice · rehabilitation · mercy · forgiveness · life without parole
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