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Although the legal use of Capital Punishment is generally decreasing around the world, individuals or groups deemed immediately threatening — or even, in times of comparative stability, simply "undesirable" — to a government's ability to govern may nevertheless be targeted for killing extrajudicially by some regimes or their representatives. Such killing typically happens quickly, with skilled secret security forces on a covert basis, performed in such a way as to avoid massive public outcry and international criticism that would reflect badly on the state. Extrajudicial punishment is a typical feature of Totalitarian and other Politically Repressive regimes using Death Squad s for this purpose, but even self-proclaimed or internationally recognized Democracies have been known to use extrajudicial punishment under certain circumstances. In some cases, extrajudicial punishment may be planned and carried out covertly by a particular branch of a state and its specific agents, without previously informing other sectors or without having been secretly ordered to commit such acts. The other branches of the state can tacitly approve of it after the fact, but they can also directly disagree with it depending on the circumstances, especially when complex intragovernment or internal policy struggles exist within a state. In times of War , Natural Disaster , Societal Collapse , or in the absence of an established system of Criminal Justice , there may be an increased incidence of extrajudicial punishment. In such extreme circumstances, police or military personnel may be authorised to Summarily Execute individuals involved in rioting, Looting or violent acts, especially if caught '' In Flagrante Delicto ''. A "disappearance" occurs where someone who is believed to have been targeted for extrajudicial execution does not reappear alive. Their ultimate fate is thereafter unknown or never fully confirmed. Extrajudicial punishment around the world See NKVD Troika and Special Council Of The NKVD for examples from the history of the Soviet Union , where extrajudicial punishment " By Administrative Means " was part of the state policy. Most Latin American Dictatorships have regularly instituted extrajudicial killings of their enemies; for one of the better-known examples, see '' Operation Condor .'' Some consider the killing of Black Panther Fred Hampton to have been an extrajudicial killing ordered by the United States government. The United States has been accused of exercising a covert prison system set up by the CIA in several countries, especially Egypt, to evade US jurisdiction. {Link without Title} The government of Israel has also been accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings, which they term "targeted assassinations," against leaders of organisations involved in carrying out attacks against Israeli citizens. The Israeli government and its defenders, however, consider these people to be Enemy Combatant s and not Civilians ; hence they are legitimate military targets as per the Rules Of War . SEE ALSO MONITORING ORGANIZATIONS
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