The families of two Trinidadian men who were killed in an Oct. 14 strike on an alleged drug boat accused the U.S. in a lawsuit Tuesday of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings.
It’s some US legal language that I never managed to understand. If I were to hypothesize a rationale, I would guess that in some cases death is unavoidable and even necessary, but in this case said death wasn’t.
Wrongful death is a civil case where you are suing for damages. Murder is a criminal case requires someone like the attorney general to bring the charges against them.
Wrongful death… Man, they’re some twisted words to use as a stand-in for murder.
It’s some US legal language that I never managed to understand. If I were to hypothesize a rationale, I would guess that in some cases death is unavoidable and even necessary, but in this case said death wasn’t.
Wrongful death is a civil case where you are suing for damages. Murder is a criminal case requires someone like the attorney general to bring the charges against them.
Murder? War Crime.