Extrajudicial Killing in the United States
Main Elements of a Claim Under § 1605A FSIA
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According to research about Extrajudicial killing from the Federal Judicial Center:The term “extrajudicial killing” also has the meaning given in the Torture Victim Protection Act, namely, “a deliberate killing not authorized by a previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.”290 An assassination qualifies.291 In Campuzano v. Islamic Republic of Iran, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that suicide bombings resulting in injury to the plaintiffs constituted extrajudicial killings within the scope of the state-sponsored terrorism exception.292 However, in Wyatt v. Syrian Arab Republic, an extrajudicial killing claim did not succeed when two soldiers, unknown and unrelated to the plaintiffs, were killed when attempting to rescue the plaintiff- hostages.293 The Wyatt court distinguished Campuzano by pointing out that the death of the soldiers in Wyatt caused no physical injury to the plaintiffs, whereas the Campuzano suicide bombs physically injured the plaintiffs. Note: FSIA is the acronym of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976.
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