Civil death is a term that refers to the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony (a crime punishable with more than a year's imprisonment) or due to an act by the government of a country that results in the loss of civil rights. In Common law legal systems a felony is a serious Crime, often contrasted with a Misdemeanor. It is usually inflicted on persons convicted of crimes against the state or adults determined by a court to be legally incompetent because of mental disability[1].
A prominent example of civil death is the "illegal enemy combatant" designation used by the United States government, under which detainees are denied the protection afforded legitimate prisoners of war described in the Geneva Conventions. An unlawful combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent is a Civilian who directly engages in armed conflict under the International Humanitarian Law The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Geneva Conventions consist of four Treaties formulated in Geneva, Switzerland, that set the standards for International law for humanitarian A second example of civil death on a wide scale is the use of purges by the former Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Great Purge (Большая чистка transliterated Bolshaya chistka) was a series of campaigns of Political repression and Persecution The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party
Historically outlawry, that is, declaring a person as an outlaw, was a common form of civil death. An outlaw or bandit is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry; the word literally means "outside the Law " by folk-etymology from the original
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- ^ See e. g. Interdiction of F. T. E. , 594 So. 2d 480 (La. App. 2d Cir. 1992).
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