Judicial murder

Judicial murder is the intentional and premeditated killing of an innocent person by means of capital punishment;[2] therefore, it is a subset of wrongful execution.

The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "death inflicted by process of law, capital punishment, esp.

Historian and writer Robert Hutchinson has called the execution of English queen Anne Boleyn a "judicial murder".

Another early use of the term occurred in Northleigh's Natural Allegiance of 1688; "He would willingly make this Proceeding against the Knight but a sort of Judicial Murder".

Such a result … if carried into execution, would be little short of judicial murder.Hermann Mostar (1956) defends the extension of the term to un-premeditated miscarriages of justice where an innocent suffers the death penalty.

Adolf Reichwein before a Nazi People's Court . He was a victim of judicial murder after a show trial . [ 1 ]