judicial execution
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As ministers insisted Geronimo must be put down, Johnson's 80-year-old father Stanley appealed for the "judicial execution" to be avoided so Geronimo could live in peace in the English county of Gloucestershire.
From Reuters • Aug. 9, 2021
And the park's first extensively documented judicial execution of a grizzly soon followed.
From Slate • Aug. 9, 2015
The contrast with the speed of judicial execution today is marked.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2014
People are regularly sentenced to death in Sri Lanka but the last judicial execution happened in 1976 so there are hundreds on death row.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2012
This appears to have been the last judicial execution in England.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles