Extrajudicial killings by type

Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate others. It can also be an extreme form of informal group social control, and it is often conducted with the display of a public spectacle (often in the form of a hanging) for maximum intimidation. Instances of lynchings and similar mob violence can be found in all societies.

armed group that conducts extrajudicial killings

unlawful secret disappearance

execution method

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

form of assassination carried by governments against their perceived enemies

Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tyre drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The term "necklace" originated in the mid-to-late 1980s, in the black townships of apartheid-era South Africa, where suspected apartheid collaborators were publicly executed in this fashion by uMkhonto weSizwe (MK).

social group-based killing that consists of the elimination of members of society who are considered undesirable, including the homeless, criminals, street children, the elderly, the poor, the weak, the sick, the needy, the disabled

extrajudicial execution method