Sentence examples for amount to execution from inspiring English sources
Critics argue the drone strikes amount to execution without trial and cause many civilian casualties.
The former Harvard student and Chicago law professor routinely approved what amounted to execution lists provided by John Brennan, his personal counter-terrorism adviser.Mr Brennan, a former CIA analyst, is now back at the agency as its director.
Although many governments consider the use of heavy weapons by police to be justified by the threat to society posed by dangerous criminals, critics have claimed that heavily armed police tend to kill large numbers of people unnecessarily, sometimes in circumstances that amount to extrajudicial execution.
He said: "It amounted to an execution, a field execution.
The prosecution case is that it amounted to an execution, a field execution," he said.
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They said that killing him amounted to summary execution without the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution.
The prosecution alleged the incident amounted to an "execution" of a man who was hors de combat – out of the fight – and should have been treated with respect and dignity.
Long before Friday's drone strike, officials say, lawyers at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice Department and the White House painstakingly considered the legal justification for what amounted to the execution of an American citizen without trial.
It amounted to an execution".
