Execution immediately after being accused of a crime, without trial
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 sentence of death. Under international law, it is a combatant's refusal to accept an opponent's lawful surrender and the combatant's provision of no quarter, by killing the surrendering opponents.
Summary executions have been practiced by police, military, and paramilitary organizations and are frequently associated with guerrilla warfare, counter-insurgency, terrorism, and any other situation which involves a breakdown of the normal procedures for handling accused prisoners, civilian or military.
In civil and military jurisprudence, summaryexecution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial...
Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summaryexecution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire drenched with petrol around a victim's chest...
A summary offence or petty offence is a violation in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury...
SummaryExecution under the Moorish Kings of Granada (French: Exécution sans jugement sous les rois maures de Grenade) is an oil on canvas painting by...
appointed the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions on 1 April 2021 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner...
346 killed on the orders of 1st Lt. Jack Bushyhead, in an alleged mass execution in the coal yard several hours after the first hospital shooting. Buechner...
justice Summary execution, execution of a person upon their being accused of a crime, without a full and fair trial; usually pejorative Summary judgment, judgment...
attempt at counter-revolutionary action in the town will result in the summaryexecution of the hostages. — Announcement in the local newspaper by Bolshevik...
was more than 6,000. In a 1994 report, Human Rights Watch described summaryexecutions of detainees as a "hallmark" of counter-insurgency operations by Indian...
Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common...
defeated Nazi leaders ranged from a show trial (the Soviet Union) to summaryexecutions (the United Kingdom). In mid-1945, France, the Soviet Union, the United...
a coup de grâce gunshot to the head. A few survived. Besides the summaryexecution of the eighty-four U.S. POWs at the farmer's field, the term "Malmedy...
passengers were in a manner consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summaryexecution." The five other ships in the flotilla employed passive resistance...
(known locally as "shabu"). Many street children were in danger of summaryexecution during the Marcos government era. In 2005, a report found that 39...
result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summaryexecutions. These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure...
The Shubaki family assassination was the summaryexecution of five adult members of the Shubaki family in the village of Arab al-Shubaki, Mandatory Palestine...
The Carnew executions refer to the summaryexecution of 28 prisoners being held as suspected United Irishmen by yeomanry troops from the Carnew garrison...
along with summaryexecution of those suspected of being Boxers in retribution. The Boxer Protocol of 7 September 1901 provided for the execution of government...
During the Suez Crisis in 1956, the IDF carried out massacres and summaryexecutions at Khan Yunis and Rafah, and the Israeli Border Police carried out...
Commissioner for Human Rights documented the unlawful killings, including summaryexecutions, of at least 73 civilians in Bucha. Photos showed corpses of civilians...
common in suicides and extrajudicial hangings (such as lynchings and summaryexecutions) which do not benefit from the specialised equipment and drop-length...