On Oct 6, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> ...I'm pretty sure that a clear majority of US executions are now
> carried out extrajudicially against residents of other countries...
> The term "execution" in discussion of the death penalty deals with
> outcomes of a legal process to determine (rightly, but all--to-often
> wrongly) guilt on the basis of a trial.
An "extrajudicial execution" is simply an act of murder, the sort of thing for which the death penalty is arguably appropriate since even one such conviction and execution would clearly have a deterrent effect.
Shane Mage
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