Extrajudicial punishment
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Extrajudicial punishment is a punishment for an alleged crime or offense which is carried out without legal process or supervision by a court or tribunal through a legal proceeding.
Politically motivated
Extrajudicial punishment is often a feature of
Although the legal use of
Another possibility is for uniformed security forces to punish a victim, but under circumstances that make it appear as
A
Extrajudicial punishment may be planned and carried out by a particular branch of a state, without informing other branches, or even without having been ordered to commit such acts. Other branches sometimes tacitly approve of the punishment after the fact. They can also genuinely disagree with it, depending on the circumstances, especially when complex intragovernmental or internal policy struggles also exist within a state's policymaking apparatus.
In times of
Around the world
Historically
Wyatt Earp led a federal posse, in the Earp Vendetta Ride, during the spring of 1882 which was implicated in the murder of four outlaw "Cowboys" they believed had ambushed his brothers Virgil and Morgan Earp, maiming the former and killing the latter.[2]
The
have also used it from time to time.Most Latin American dictatorships have regularly instituted extrajudicial killings of their enemies; for one of the better-known examples, see Operation Condor.[3]
The deaths of the leaders of the
During the
Present day
In
In the
For many years, the
It has been discussed[who?] that the use of psychiatric treatments to reduce unwanted behaviors can be seen as extrajudicial punishments, due to many side-effects associated to these treatments.[9]
The US has been known to employ extrajudicial tactics including
...the United States has not transported anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe he will be tortured. Where appropriate, the United States seeks assurances that transferred persons will not be tortured.
The CIA has been accused of operating secret detention and interrogation centres known as black sites. These are allegedly located in countries other than the US, thus evading US laws as they are outside US jurisdiction.[citation needed]
Human rights groups
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Many human rights organisations like Amnesty International are campaigning against extrajudicial punishment.[15][16][17][18][19]
See also
- Administrative detention
- Arbitrary arrest and detention
- Assassination
- Charivari
- COINTELPRO
- Death squad
- Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
- Extrajudicial killing
- Extraordinary rendition
- Frontier justice
- Human rights
- Human Rights Watch
- Law without the state
- Lynching
- Martial law
- Non-judicial punishment
- Outlaw
- Police encounter
- Posse
- Presumption of guilt
- Prison rape
- Purge
- State of emergency
- Summary execution
- Targeted killing
- Tarring and feathering
- Terrorism
- Torture
- Vigilante
- Vigilantism in the United States of America
- Whitecapping
Sources
- Miethe, Terance D.; Lu, Hong (2005). Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective. ISBN 978-0-521-60516-8.
- Adam Possamai; James T Richardson; Bryan S Turner (4 December 2014). The Sociology of Shari'a: Case Studies from around the World. Springer. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-3-319-09605-6.
- Collective Punishment. Human Rights Watch. GGKEY:9K4181KYTQU.
References
- ISBN 978-0-521-80899-6.
- ^ WGBH American Experience: Wyatt Earp, Complete Program Transcript. January 25, 2010. Archived from the original on January 30, 2017.
- ^ Stanley, Ruth (2006). "Predatory States. Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America/When States Kill. Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror". Journal of Third World Studies. Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- ^ Merwe, Hugo van der (2009). "Transitional Justice and DDR: The case of South Africa" (PDF). ICTj. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "Tweede Kamer ongeduldig over problemen met strafbeschikking".
- ^ "Jamaica:Killings and Violence by Police: How many more Victims?". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 2009-08-02.
- ^ Summers, Chris (2004-05-14). "Jamaica wrestles with police violence". BBC news.
- ^ "Island of music and murder". Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ "Coercive psychiatry a torture system". Archived from the original on 12 April 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ Charlie Savage (17 February 2009). "Obama's War on Terror May Resemble Bush's in Some Areas". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2016-08-13. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ^ "Background Paper on CIA's Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques". 30 December 2004. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ^ "New CIA Docs Detail Brutal 'Extraordinary Rendition' Process". Huffington Post. 28 August 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ^ Fact sheet: Extraordinary rendition, American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved 29 March 2007 (in English)
- ^ "Remarks of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Upon Her Departure for Europe, 5 Dec 2005". U.S. State Department. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Project on Extrajudicial Executions". Archived from the original on 2011-10-31. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
- ^ UN independent expert on extrajudicial killings urges action on reported incidents
- ^ Document Information | Amnesty International Archived 2007-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Dickey: Iraq, Salvador and Death-Squad Democracy - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com Archived 2005-11-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Special Forces May Train Assassins, Kidnappers in Iraq - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com Archived 2005-01-14 at the Wayback Machine
External links
Media related to Extrajudicial killings at Wikimedia Commons
- Monitoring organizations
- Amnesty International
- Ansar Burney Trust (Pakistan and the Middle East)
- Human Rights Watch