judicial murder

Frequency: 2.50.8 per million words

The execution of an innocent person by the state after an unjust legal process.

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  • The critics described the execution as nothing less than judicial murder.
  • Historians now regard the trial and subsequent hanging as a clear case of judicial murder.
  • The defense lawyer argued that sentencing an innocent man to death would be judicial murder.
  • Campaigners are fighting to expose what they claim was a judicial murder committed fifty years ago.
  • Many believe the hasty conviction resulted in judicial murder by the state.
  • The book details several instances of judicial murder during the regime's reign of terror.
  • He was exonerated posthumously, proving his death was a tragic judicial murder.
  • The governor refused to sign the warrant, fearing he might be complicit in judicial murder.
  • International observers condemned the rushed proceedings as state-sanctioned judicial murder.
  • We must ensure our legal system never becomes a tool for judicial murder.