judicial execution

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The hanging was the only judicial execution ever held in the state of Israel.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

As ministers insisted Geronimo must be put down, Johnson's 80-year-old father Stanley appealed for the "judicial execution" to be avoided so Geronimo could live in peace in the English county of Gloucestershire.

From Reuters • Aug. 9, 2021

And the park's first extensively documented judicial execution of a grizzly soon followed.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2015

The contrast with the speed of judicial execution today is marked.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2014

This appears to have been the last judicial execution in England.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles