Debating Targeted Killing: Counter-Terrorism or Extrajudicial Execution?

by Jeremy Waldron and Tamar Meisels

Book Overview

Known terrorists are often targeted for death by the governments of Israel and the United States. Several thousand have been killed by drones or by operatives on the ground in the last twenty years. Is this form of killing justified, when hundreds or thousands of lives are possibly at risk at the hands of a known terrorist? Is there anything about it that should disturb us? Ethically-sound and practical answers to these questions are more difficult...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190906928
• ISBN13: 9780190906924
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"