Extrajudicial execution

A minority of member nations of the United Nations still include the death penalty as part of their legal system, and this number continues to decrease.

However, in order to minimise the chance of public criticism of a decision to kill someone, some governments use their security forces to kill people without going through any legal procedure, generally in a secretive way. Such a killing is termed an extrajudicial execution.

When insufficient information exists to distinguish whether someone has been killed by a government or rather is being secretly held in prison, the person is considered to have been disappeared.

Table of contents

1 Monitoring organizations 2 Schools for teaching techniques such as extrajudicial executions and torture 3 Related subjects

Monitoring organizations

• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch

Schools for teaching techniques such as extrajudicial executions and torture

• School of the Americas

Related subjects

• Terrorism