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单词 judicial killing
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judicial killing
judicial killing n. death inflicted by process of law; capital punishment; an instance of this; cf. judicial murder n.
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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.
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