judicial murder

“Father Stan Swamy spent a lifetime working for the dispossessed and the disadvantaged,” wrote prominent historian Ramachandra Guha, calling his death “a case of judicial murder.”

The UK's then Prime Minister, John Major, called it a "fraudulent trial" and described the executions as "judicial murder".

None of these efforts are nearly as chilling and dictatorial as Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which nearly led to the judicial murder of Asia Bibi earlier this year, and has led to the murder of politicians who spoke out in her favour.

As methods of judicial murder go its probably pretty benign, the number of people who die each year in an enclosed environment filled with nitrogen is staggering and the fact that they lose consciousness so quickly they cant escape says its probably pretty painless.

And because he saw how easily the mob could be swayed—he was traumatized by the judicial murder of his teacher and hero Socrates—he didn’t trust rhetoric.