execution-style

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/4/2012 11:38 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Nov 4, 2012, at 5:55 AM, Sarah wrote:
>
> > Not to take away from fried chicken, but isn't "execution style"
> a rather particular term in that it has and can be applied to a
> person or persons murdered in a situation where there was no option
> to fight/escape, the death was quick and efficient (and the point),
> and the motivate was likely retribution/punishment/business?
> >
> > While there is the classic "on your knees, gun to back of the
> head" method, it does seem to be used in many variations where
> simply getting rid of that particular person or persons as quickly,
> efficiently, and neatly as possible is the method and goal. There
> is no rage, no torture, no ritual, no accidental "I didn't mean
> to", etc. It was a job. An execution (although yes, as JL pointed
> out, not a state-sanctioned one).
> >
> > S.
>
>Another point that I don't think has been brought up (unless I
>missed it) is that when "execution-style" first came into vogue for
>those classic cases, it involved (I assume) a transfer of the
>methods of, as it were, state-executed execution to the gangland
>context, although presumably on-your-knees,
>gun-to-the-back-of-the-head wasn't employed as the standard method
>of administering capital punishment.

Did not armies/militias/other armed groups that could be considered
state-sponsored employ "on-your-knees, gun-to-the-back-of-the-head"
summary executions?  Or is that only in the movies?

Joel

>I think the resemblance noted in the other parts of Sarah's
>description is what prompted that transfer.  (Besides the factors
>mentioned above, there's the "he [at least usually he] had it
>coming", at least in the eyes of the execution-style executioner.
>
>LH
> >
> > On 2012-11-03, at 8:40 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >> I'm introducing "steak-fried chicken" right now.
> >>
> >> Throw in a little A-1 Sauce.
> >>
> >> Equivocal exx. back to 1759.
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:32 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> LH: <<<raw  . . ."chicken-fried chicken>>>
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