judicial execution

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The hanging was the only judicial execution ever held in the state of Israel.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

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

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

Homicide may be justifiable, as in the case of judicial execution, or excusable, as in defence of one's family or property.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )