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Judicial murder is the unjustified use of capital punishment. The term was first used in 1782 (German ''Justizmord'') by August Ludwig von Schlözer in reference to the execution of Anna Göldi. In a footnote, he explains the term as :"the murder of an innocent, deliberately, and with all the pomp of holy Justice, perpetrated by people installed to prevent murder, or, if a murder has occurred, to see to it that it is punished appropriately."〔''„Ermordung eines Unschuldigen, vorsätzlich, und so gar mit allem Pompe der heil. Justiz, verübt von Leuten, die gesetzt sind, daß sie verhüten sollen, daß ein Mord geschehe, oder falls er geschehen, doch gehörig gestraft werde.“'' (von Schlözer, p. (273 ))〕 Voltaire in 1777 used the comparable term of "judicial assassins" (''assassins juridiques''). In 1932, the term is also used by justice Sutherland in ''Powell v. Alabama'' creating the right to a court-appointed attorney in all capital cases: :Let us suppose the extreme case of a prisoner charged with a capital offense who is deaf and dumb, illiterate and feeble minded, unable to employ counsel, with the whole power of the state arrayed against him, prosecuted by counsel for the state without assignment of counsel for his defense, tried, convicted and sentenced to death. 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 miscarriage of justice where an innocent suffers the death penalty.〔Hermann Mostar. ''Unschuldig verurteilt! Aus der Chronik der Justizmorde''. Herbig-Verlag, Munich (1956)〕 ==See also== *Miscarriage of justice *Wrongful execution 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Judicial murder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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