Extra judicial killing are killing performed by people under the auspices of the government, usually

for political reasons (such as disposing of dissidents or establishing social control through state
terrorism), but without the normal, established judicial processes of capital punishment.

In other words, whenever a person is effectively tried, convicted and executed outside of a court of
law, it is an extra-judicial killing. This applies to South American death squads, KKK lynch mobs,
shootings by private citizens in Castle Defense states, shootings of unarmed black men by US police,
and any other case where a single individual or group determines that another person is guilty of a
crime and carries out what amounts to capital punishment on his own initiative.

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.[citation needed]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. This does not include cases where aforementioned authorities act
under motives that serve their own interests and not the state's, such as to eliminate their complicity
in crime or commissioning by an outside party.[1]
Section 3(a) of the United States Torture Victim Protection Act contains a definition of extrajudicial
killing:
a deliberate killing not authorized by a previous judgement pronounced by a regular constituted court
affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.
Such term, however, does not include any such killing that, under international law, is lawfully carried
out under the authority of a foreign nation.[2][a]

Extrajudicial killings and death squads are common

in Syria,[3][4][5] Iraq,[6][7][8][9][10] Egypt,[11][12][13][14][15] Libya,[16] Central
America,[17][18] India,[19][20][21] Mexico,[22] Colombia,[23]Brazil,[24][25][26][27][28] Venezuela,[29][30] Indonesia,[31] Afgha
nistan,[32] Pakistan,[33] Bangladesh,[34][35][36] several nations or regions in Africa,[37][38][39][40][41] including
the Democratic Republic of the
Congo[42] and Burundi,[43][44] Jamaica,[45][46][47] Kosovo,[48] Russia,[49][50] Uzbekistan, parts
of Thailand,[51] Turkey,[52][53][54][55][56] in the Philippines,[57][58][59][60][61][62][63] Tajikistan,[64][65] Papua New
Guinea,[42][66][67] and by Israeli forces.[68][69][70] One of the most recent issues regarding extrajudicial
killing has been the debate about the legal and moral status of targeted killing by unmanned aerial
vehicles by the United States.

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1Argentina
 2Bangladesh
3Chile
4El Salvador
5Honduras
6Iran
7Iraq
8India
9Philippines
o 9.1Maguindanao massacre
o 9.2War on Drugs
10Soviet Union and Russia
11State of Israel
12Thailand
13Turkey
14United Kingdom
o 14.1Northern Ireland
15United States
16Vietnam
17Human rights groups
18See also
19References
20Further reading

Argentina[edit]
Argentina's dictatorial government during the 19761983 period used extrajudicial killings
systematically as way of crushing the opposition in the so-called "Dirty War".[71]

Bangladesh[edit]
Bangladeshi special security force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has long been known for
extrajudicial killing.[72] In a leaked Wikileaks cable it was found that RAB was trained
by UKgovernment.[73] 16 RAB officials (sacked afterwards) including Lt Col (sacked) Tareque Sayeed,
Major (sacked) Arif Hossain, and Lt Commander (sacked) Masud Rana were given death penalty for
abduction, murder, concealing the bodies, conspiracy and destroying evidences in the Narayanganj
Seven Murder case.[74][75][76][77]
Beside this lots of alleged criminals were killed by Bangladesh police by the name of cross fire.[78]

Chile[edit]
During the Pinochet Regime that lasted from 1973 to 1989 elements of the military
and police committed extrajudicial killings. Some of these were coordinated with other right-wing
dictatorships in the Southern Cone in the so-called Operation Condor.

El Salvador[edit]
During the Salvadoran civil war, death squads achieved notoriety when far-right vigilantes
assassinated Archbishop scar Romero for his social activism in March 1980. In December
1980, four Americans three nuns and a lay worker were raped and murdered by a military unit
later found to have been acting on specific orders. Death squads were instrumental in killing
hundreds of peasants and activists, including such notable priests as Rutilio Grande. Because the
death squads involved were found to have been soldiers of the Salvadoran military, which was
receiving U.S. funding and training from American advisors during the Carter administration, these
events prompted outrage in the U.S. and led to a temporary cutoff in military aid from
the Reagan administration[citation needed], although death squad activity stretched well into the Reagan
years (19811989) as well.

Honduras[edit]
Honduras also had death squads active through the 1980s, the most notorious of which
was Battalion 316. Hundreds of people, including teachers, politicians and union bosses, were
assassinated by government-backed forces. Battalion 316 received substantial support and training
from the United States Central Intelligence Agency.[79]

Iran[edit]
See also: Chain Murders of Iran
In 1953 a regime was installed through the efforts of the American CIA and the British MI6 in which
the Shah (hereditary monarch) Mohammad Reza Pahlavi used SAVAK death squads (also trained
by the CIA) to imprison, torture and/or kill hundreds of dissidents. After the 1979 revolution death
squads were used to an even greater extent by the new Islamic government. In 1983, the CIA gave
the Supreme Leader of IranAyatollah Khomeiniinformation on KGB agents in Iran. This
information was probably used. The Iranian government later used death squads occasionally
throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; however by the 2000s it seems to have almost entirely, if
not completely, ceased using them. This partial relaxation of Khomeini's harsh policies and
subtle Westernization of the country can be seen paralleling similar events in Lebanon, the United
Arab Emirates, and Northern Iraq beginning in the late 1990s.

Iraq[edit]
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see Murderer (disambiguation).

The assassination of Agamemnon, an illustration from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church,
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Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the
unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.[1][2][3] This state of mind may,
depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such
as manslaughter. Manslaughter is a killing committed in the absence of malice, brought about by
reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is
a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness.
Most societies consider murder to be a very serious crime, and thus believe that the person charged
should receive harsh punishments for the purposes of retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation,
or incapacitation. In most countries, a person convicted of murder generally faces a long-term prison
sentence, possibly a life sentence; and in a few, the death penalty may be imposed.[4]