(JD) Summary Executions

[Judge Shaw]

Under what situations (if any) are Judges allowed to carry out on the spot executions?

 

[havercake lad]

Traitors can be summararily executed in wartime. When out in the Cursed Earth Judges seem to be sanctioned to do this as well.

Off hand I can only think of a single occassion in the strips when Dredd executes a citizen in the Meg after arrest in peace time and that was for Mass Murder.

Note 'Citizen' , droids have no rights.

 

[havercake lad]

Judges also have dispensation to execute perps off-world. (Dredd executed Pa Angel and Junior Angel at Xanadu.)

Generally captured perps who merit execution will be taken into custody at an Iso Cube so interrogators can learn information about unsolved crimes and criminal associates. 'Ratfink', the son of Fink Angel, is an example of this.

Possibly a perp under a death sentence is entitled to a trial or appeal. Orlok the Assassin was given a trial after the Sin City incident despite murdering tens of thousands of citizens... though arguably the whole thing was a political stunt. I also seem to recollect a perp being executed after an appeal was quashed during Francisco's election to the Chief Judge.

Even multiple Judge killers and mass murderes like Fink Angel seem to have only merited incarcaration during the eras of Chief Judges Goodman, Griffin and also Mcgruder's first office. It's certainly a grey area in the canon material...a GM might rationalise that things started to get a lot tougher on mass murderers after the end of Hershey's first office.

 

[alexe74]

It was also used in a Judge Anderson story. A cabal were refusing to "help" reopen a demon gate so under the "threat to the city act" (or something like that) the Judge shot one of the cabal and said he'd keep executing them until they agreed to open the gate again.

Alex E

 

[Nuclear Fridge Magnet]

Traitors can be summararily executed in wartime. When out in the Cursed Earth Judges seem to be sanctioned to do this as well.

Off hand I can only think of a single occassion in the strips when Dredd executes a citizen in the Meg after arrest in peace time and that was for Mass Murder.

Note 'Citizen' , droids have no rights.

The 'Mass Murder' case was the bumbling lab tech who put curare concentrate into an air processing system, correct? As a means of revenge against his employer - who had just fired him for incompetence - it was pretty drokking stupid. :roll: He poisoned dozens of people with his bonehead stunt, and Joe Dredd blasted him for it.

 

[havercake lad]

Traitors can be summararily executed in wartime. When out in the Cursed Earth Judges seem to be sanctioned to do this as well.

Off hand I can only think of a single occassion in the strips when Dredd executes a citizen in the Meg after arrest in peace time and that was for Mass Murder.

Note 'Citizen' , droids have no rights.

The 'Mass Murder' case was the bumbling lab tech who put curare concentrate into an air processing system, correct? As a means of revenge against his employer - who had just fired him for incompetence - it was pretty drokking stupid. :roll: He poisoned dozens of people with his bonehead stunt, and Joe Dredd blasted him for it.

NFM is quite right, and has deduced the example I had in mind.

 

[havercake lad]

In 'Wonderwall', Judge Anderson sentences Deeter Malthus to immediate execution for crimes involving kidnap of a minor and their subsequent incararation and prostitution. She did not pull the trigger though, as she felt that she would be killing execution in a spirit of hate, so she asked Judge Goon to carry out the execution instead.

 

[TkNyarlathotep]

I don't know if this counts, but Judges also have clearance to kill perps who have fired upon them.