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Malefactor, a contemptible or formidable wretch; one who commits a malum in se...
Ganch
To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks as the Turks dropped malefactors by way of punishment...
Malefactor
An evil doer one who commits a crime one subject to public prosecution and punishment a criminal...
Malefactress
A female malefactor...
Gibbet
Gibbet [fr. gibet, Fr.], a gallows; but post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which their bodies are exposed after death-a practice abolished in England by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 36.A post with one arm extending from top, from which originals one either executed by hanging as suspended after death as a warning to other potential offender, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 696....
Justifiable homicide
Justifiable homicide, the killing of a human creature without incurring any legal guilt. It is of various kinds:-(1) The due execution of public justice, inputting a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by the laws of his country.(2) It may be committed for the advancement of public justice, as in the following instances: (a) Where an officer or his assistant, in the due execu-tion of his office, either in a criminal or civil case, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person who resists and who is killed in the struggle. (b) In case of a riot or rebellious assembly, officers endeavouring to disperse the mob are justified in killing them, both at Common Law and by the (English) Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, c. 5). (g) Where the prisoners in a gaol assault the galore or officer, and he in his defence kills any of them; it is justifiable for the sake of preventing an escape. (d) Where an officer or his assistant, in the due execution of his office, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person fo...
Miserere
Miserere (have mercy). The name and first word of one of the penitential psalms, being that which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy, whence it is also called the Psalm of Mercy, Jac. Law Dict....
Necessity, homicide by
Necessity, homicide by, a species of justifiable homicide, because it arises from some unavoidable necessity, without any will, intention, or desire, and without any inadvertence or negligence in the party killing, and therefore without any shadow of blame. As, for instance, by virtue of such an office as obliges one, in the execution of public justice, to put a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life to the laws of his country; but to kill a man in order to eat him, and so escape death by hunger, is murder, see Reg. v. Duldey, (1884) 14 QBD 273; and JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE....
Ordinary of assize and sessions
Ordinary of assize and sessions, a deputy of the bishop of the diocese, anciently appointed to give malefactors their neckverses, and judge whether they read or not; also to perform divine service for them, and assist in preparing them for death. See NECK-VERSE....
Ordinary of newgate
Ordinary of newgate, the clergyman who is attendant upon condemned malefactors in that prison to prepare them for death; he records the behaviour of such persons. Formerly, it was the custom of the ordinary to publish a small pamphlet upon the execution of any remarkable criminal....
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