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.