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In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial. The term results from the legal concept of summary justice to punish a summary offense , as in the case of a drumhead court-martial , but the term usually denotes the summary execution of a ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. Intentional and unlawful killings of individuals by state actors without judicial process This painting, The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, depicts the summary execution of Spaniards by French forces after the Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid. An extrajudicial killing (also known as ...
Summary execution, an execution in which a person is accused of a crime and then immediately killed without benefit of a full and fair trial. Summary judgment. A judgment in a summary proceeding, as one rendered pursuant to statute against the sureties on a bond furnished in an action. 50 Am J1st Suret § 209.
Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.They include assassinations; deaths due to strafing or indiscriminate firing; massacre; summary execution is done if the victim becomes passive before the moment of death (i.e., abduction leading to death); assassination means forthwith or ...
Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada. Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada (French: Exécution sans jugement sous les rois maures de Grenade) is an oil on canvas painting by Henri Regnault. Completed in 1870, it was acquired by the state from Regnault’s heirs for display at the Musée du Luxembourg.
No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka is an investigative documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War.The documentary covers the period from September 2008 until the end of the war in 2009 in which thousands of Tamil people were killed by shelling and extrajudicial executions by the Sri Lankan Army including Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year-old son of the ...
The killing was certainly extrajudicial, but it strikes me more as a warlike action than a summary execution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.208.8.103 04:56, 2 December 2011 (UTC) I do not agree that Anwar al-Awlaki died by summary execution. His wikipedia page describes the death as a "targeted killing" which differs from summary ...
Abhilasha (transl. Desire) is a 1983 Indian Telugu-language legal drama film directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy and produced by K. S. Rama Rao.The film stars Chiranjeevi and Radhika while Rao Gopal Rao and Gollapudi Maruti Rao play vital roles and the music is composed by Ilaiyaraaja.