death squad
敢死队,死亡小组,行刑队,死神小队
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- : any of various groups of assassins, especially in Central America, whose members murder political dissidents, petty criminals, etc., usually with the tacit approval of the government.
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With virtually no membership screening, oversight or internal discipline at this point in their history, the Rangers became something like a death squad.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Asia Bibi, as she is known, was arrested and sentenced to death.
The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.
Father Joel Román Salazar died in a car crash in 2013; his death was ruled an accident, but the suspicion of foul play persists.
The death toll, which experts believe has been significantly undercut by secret burials, stands at 7,905.
This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
Your sacrifice shall be the agony of agonies, the death of deaths, and yet you'll find yourself unable to resist.
Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man.
For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck.