Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Outside of the authority of a court.
- adj. Outside of the usual judicial proceedings.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Outside of judicial proceedings; out of the proper court, or the ordinary course or scope of legal procedure: as, extrajudicial declarations (those made out of court).
Wiktionary
- adj. law, of a punishment Carried out without legal authority.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Out of or beyond the power authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not valid as a part of a judicial proceeding; , are null and void.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted
Examples
“In 2001, despite threats and grenade attacks, Guatemalan judges eventually convicted three people for the murder of Bishop Juan José Gerardi, who had just released a report on the state's and the military's complicity in extrajudicial killings.”
“In 2001, despite threats and grenade attacks, Guatemalan judges eventually convicted three people for the murder of Bishop Juan José Gerardi, who had just released a report on the state's and the military's complicity in extrajudicial killings.”
“In matters of foreign policy, this has for some time resulted in extrajudicial executions — war — but we are a far cry in this administration from the million Iraqis that Bush wiped out.”
“They are cheap, reliable, and a reason why 28 prisoners have been held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo.”
“Targeted or political assassinations -- sometimes called extrajudicial executions -- are carried out by order of, or with the acquiescence of, a government, outside any judicial framework.”
Marjorie Cohn: Obama's Af-Pak War Should be Considered Illegal
“We believe that the presence of our forces and Iraqi forces in neighborhoods; the focus on the so-called extrajudicial killing -- EJK -- cells, is, at least in substantial part, a reason for the reduction in these sectarian killings.”
“I believe that they should stop the incursions, the closures, they should lift the roadblocks from one place to the other, between cities and villages and between everyone within the same -- and then they should stop the targeted killings, so-called extrajudicial killings or murders, and this kind of thing, because the Palestinians cannot abandon all kinds of resistance while the Israelis are doing that.”
“Marjorie Cohn, immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild, who tells IPS: "Targeted or political assassinations - sometimes called extrajudicial executions - are carried out by order of, or with the acquiescence of, a government, outside any judicial framework.”
“Activists and international groups long have criticized Nigeria's police for committing so-called extrajudicial killings and fostering an officer corps that preys on the impoverished.”
“Activists and international groups long have criticised Nigeria's police for committing so-called extrajudicial killings and fostering an officer corps that preys on the impoverished.”
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