| 单词 | judicial killing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjudicial killing judicial killing n. death inflicted by process of law; capital punishment; an instance of this; cf. judicial murder n. ΚΠ 1838 F. Lieber Man. Polit. Ethics I. ii. v. 190 The extra-judicial killing of a person may become absolutely necessary in a specific case of self-preservation.] 1843 Liberator (Boston) 9 June 98/4 The graphic effusion of Whittier on ‘Human Sacrifice’, alias Capital Punishment or Judicial Killing. 1849 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah xxi. 200 The rush and roar of Niagara,..the death-dealing charge of the battle-field, even the judicial killings called capital punishments, are nothing in comparison [to cold-blooded murder]. 1922 G. B. Shaw in S. Webb & B. Webb Eng. Prisons under Local Govt. p. lvi About [the killing of] a chronically homicidal lunatic there should be no hesitation whatever as long as we practise judicial killing at all. 2012 T. E. Hill Virtue, Rules, & Justice xiii. 314 The value of humanity gives us a strong presumption against judicial killing and also against sentencing offenders to demeaning and debilitating conditions. < as lemmas |
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