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Meanings of summary execution in English
Execution immediately after being accused of a crime, without a fair trial; usually understood to mean capture, accusation, and execution all conducted during a very short span of time.
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Examples for "lynching"
Examples for "lynching"
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Sure, people had heard about lynching, but few Americans had seen it.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Left to right: The lynching of George Meadows, 1889.
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The Supreme Court last year recommended making mob lynching a separate offense.
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His trial for tax evasion was later described as a legal lynching.
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My grandparents left a South that let people get away with lynching.
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Foster thought this was frontier justice and urged another objection.
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Quinn, a passionate advocate for the mentally ill, and Bo, the defense attorney with a unique sense of frontier justice.
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They threw at and near batters regularly with a frontier justice mentality, the kind of machismo that mostly had disappeared from the game.
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"I'll settle for frontier justice and getting the hell away."
Usage of summary execution in English
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The implied threat of summary execution became explicit in a September directive.
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Kevin O'Higgins was responsible for the summary execution of 77 Republican prisoners.
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Whether he was headed toward salvation or summary execution, he didn't know.
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Upon these tongues it will not be necessary to do summary execution.
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Instead of summary execution, you may choose between two lesser decrees.
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U.S. forces said they learned about the summary execution only after it had taken place.
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Here they lay in doleful fright, expecting summary execution.
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The opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights said it documented the summary execution of 17 men.
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It was either that or a summary execution.
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However it does clearly show a summary execution and torture, apparently being carried out by government supporters.
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But another said it may have been the summary execution of someone who was clearly a foreigner.
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But the summary execution is a sign of the compromises that U.S. forces still have to make.
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Another official said it looked like a " summary execution."
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Unconcealed in the Pontiffs speech was threat of summary execution if they failed to answer their inquiries satisfactorily.
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The next step should be the council's dissolution, and the summary execution of all council members who protest.
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Anyone who found a way round this, no matter their status, would face summary execution, with no exception.
Translations for summary execution
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