Extrajudicial execution and extrajudicial punishment are terms to describe death sentences and other types of punishment, respectively, executed without prior proper judicial procedure.
A minority of member nations of the United Nations still include the death penalty as part of their legal system, and this number continues to decrease. However, in order to minimise the chance of public criticism of a decision to kill someone, some governments use their security forces to kill people without going through any legal procedure, generally in a secretive way. Such a killing is termed an extrajudicial execution.
When insufficient information exists to distinguish whether someone has been killed by a government or rather is being secretly held in prison, the person is considered to have disappeared.
Extrajudicialexecutions are fundamental violations of human rights and an affront to the conscience of humanity.
The prohibition of extrajudicialexecutions and the essential safeguards for their prevention must not be suspended under any circumstances, including states of war or other public emergency.
The prohibition of extrajudicialexecutions should be reflected in the training of all officials involved in the arrest and custody of prisoners and all officials authorized to use lethal force, and in the instructions issued to them.
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