Learn English – ‘summary execution’

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While reading this blog, I could not find the meaning of 'summary execution'.

When I tried to find the meaning of this phrase, I got the phrases like 'summary judgement', and 'summary proceeding'.

My questions are: What is a meaning of 'summary execution'? Is it a legal jargon or an idiomatic phrase as it is written with an inverted comma?

Best Answer

The word summary in your example is not a noun, but an adjective which means:

Law (Of a judicial process) conducted without the customary legal formalities.

Summary execution means:

an execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without benefit of a full and fair trial.

You could find more about summary execution in the Wikipedia article.

[Oxford Online Dictionary]