spot execution

Curfews were strictly enforced, all infringements of the law were punished by on the spot executions, and even the smallest signs of dissent or defiance were quickly stamped out.

The randomness of the spot executions described by Albanian refugees shows that the wealthy, as well as the cautious, can have their lives end at the whim of a person with a gun.

Amnesty International has been banned here, and a special law exempts soldiers with the rank of sergeant or higher from punishment, he said, pulling out a sheaf of reports that documented more than a thousand people who had "disappeared," along with case after case of rape, torture, on-the spot executions and deaths in prison.