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* Happened once in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' where the man they were pursuing turned out to be too valuable to the CIA to be arrested, despite being a murderer and all-around disgusting person. As soon as they let him go, NCIS headquarters receives a live video transmission from an unknown source. They watch as the man walks out of the building and promptly drops from a bullet to the forehead, fired from behind the camera.
** Happens again later, when it looks like a crime lord is going to walk after having two Marines tortured to death after they witness a shooting. Their comrade (who had lied and claimed to be the witness in order to protect them) can't stand it and shoots him outside the courthouse.
** In one episode, the killer was a gang member telling everyone that he was getting messages from the boss. Turns out he had killed the boss and caused the death of other members in the gang along with a Marine. Unable to pin him for the crimes, Gibbs shows what he has done to other members of the gang and tells them that he would never be convicted. He then drops the man off at the gang's place. You see him slowly being surrounded by other members. Cue next scene at NCIS headquarters where on TV it says his body was found ridden with bullets.
** Happens again later, when it looks like a crime lord is going to walk after having two Marines tortured to death after they witness a shooting. Their comrade (who had lied and claimed to be the witness in order to protect them) can't stand it and shoots him outside the courthouse.
** In one episode, the killer was a gang member telling everyone that he was getting messages from the boss. Turns out he had killed the boss and caused the death of other members in the gang along with a Marine. Unable to pin him for the crimes, Gibbs shows what he has done to other members of the gang and tells them that he would never be convicted. He then drops the man off at the gang's place. You see him slowly being surrounded by other members. Cue next scene at NCIS headquarters where on TV it says his body was found ridden with bullets.
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* Happened once in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' where several times on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
** In one episode, the manthey were they're pursuing turned turns out to be too valuable to the CIA to be arrested, despite being a murderer and all-around disgusting person. As soon as they let him go, NCIS headquarters receives a live video transmission from an unknown source. They watch as the man walks out of the building and promptly drops from a bullet to the forehead, fired from behind the camera.
**Happens again later, when In another episode, it looks like a crime lord is going to walk after having two Marines tortured to death after they witness a shooting. Their comrade (who had lied and claimed to be the witness in order to protect them) can't stand it and shoots him outside the courthouse.
** In one episode, the killer was agang member telling everyone of a local gang who had told the other gang members that he was getting messages from the boss. Turns out he had killed the boss and caused the death of other members in the gang along with a Marine. Unable to pin him for the crimes, Gibbs shows what he has done his evidence to other members of the gang and tells them that he would the killer will never be convicted. convicted for lack of evidence. He then drops the man off at the gang's place.headquarters. You see him slowly being surrounded by other members. Cue next scene at NCIS headquarters where on TV it says his body was found ridden with bullets.
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** In one episode, the killer was a
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* Subverted quite effectively in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' — when a highly notorious Cardassian war criminal just goes free, he is killed by a Bajoran vigilante. [[spoiler:Except the victim was innocent (he was a file clerk who was actually extremely sympathetic to the Bajorans, to the point of trying to get himself executed to force his people to face their crimes), and the attacker was a violent drunk who felt that just being a Cardassian was enough of a reason to kill him.]]
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* Subverted quite effectively in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' — when a highly notorious Cardassian war criminal just goes free, he is killed by a Bajoran vigilante. [[spoiler:Except the victim was innocent (he was a file clerk who was actually extremely sympathetic to the Bajorans, to the point of disguising himself as the war criminal and trying to get himself executed as him to force his people to face their crimes), and the attacker was a violent drunk who felt that just being a Cardassian was enough of a reason to kill him.]]
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'' features a serial killer who'd [[DeathOfPersonality got his personality erased]], and a new one installed in its place. The relatives of his victims refuse to see it as a fit punishment, even though the man who'd killed their loved ones is essentially ''dead'', and track him down and murder him after their psychological abuse of the man brings back memories of his criminal past.
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'' features a ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** A serial killer who'd [[DeathOfPersonality got his personality erased]], and a new one installed in its place. The relatives of his victims refuse to see it as a fit punishment, even though the man who'd killed their loved ones is essentially ''dead'', and track him down and murder him after their psychological abuse of the man brings back memories of his criminal past.
** A serial killer who'd [[DeathOfPersonality got his personality erased]], and a new one installed in its place. The relatives of his victims refuse to see it as a fit punishment, even though the man who'd killed their loved ones is essentially ''dead'', and track him down and murder him after their psychological abuse of the man brings back memories of his criminal past.
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* An episode of ''Series/ThePractice'' played this straight: a man actually helped the man on trial for murdering his wife get off, then hired someone to shoot him on his way out, because he wanted him dead, not in prison.
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* An episode of ''Series/ThePractice'' played this straight: ''Series/ThePractice'':
** Played straight in one episode: a man actually helped the man on trial for murdering his wife get off, then hired someone to shoot him on his way out, because he wanted him dead, not in prison.
** Played straight in one episode: a man actually helped the man on trial for murdering his wife get off, then hired someone to shoot him on his way out, because he wanted him dead, not in prison.
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* ''Series/TheCloser'': in "Heroic Measures", the DA decides there is no winnable case to be made against the doctors who made a judgment call to let a boy die on the operating table, so while they're walking back to their cars, the mother shoots them.
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* ''Series/TheCloser'': in ''Series/TheCloser'':
** In "Heroic Measures", the DA decides there is no winnable case to be made against the doctors who made a judgment call to let a boy die on the operating table, so while they're walking back to their cars, the mother shoots them.
** In "Heroic Measures", the DA decides there is no winnable case to be made against the doctors who made a judgment call to let a boy die on the operating table, so while they're walking back to their cars, the mother shoots them.
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* Happens fairly often to human-form Cylon prisoners in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', although generally Cylons don't get a trial, and are murdered on the way to and from the specially-constructed holding cell. Notably, shortly after Boomer had shot Commander Adama and was being transferred, Cally pushed through the near-riotous crowd of crew and shot Boomer herself. The writers confirmed this was a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald. Cally got 6 weeks in the brig for "unauthorised discharge of a firearm".
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* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':
** Happens fairly often to human-form Cylonprisoners in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', prisoners, although generally Cylons don't get a trial, and are murdered on the way to and from the specially-constructed holding cell. Notably, shortly after Boomer had shot Commander Adama and was being transferred, Cally pushed through the near-riotous crowd of crew and shot Boomer herself. The writers confirmed this was a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald. Cally got 6 weeks in the brig for "unauthorised discharge of a firearm".
** Happens fairly often to human-form Cylon
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* ComicBook/{{Solo}} is pretty much the same as the Punisher, except he specializes in terrorists. (One of the reasons [[CopycatSue he never caught on with fans]].)
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* ComicBook/{{Solo}} is pretty much the same as the Punisher, except he specializes in terrorists. (One of the reasons [[CopycatSue he never caught on with fans]].)
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* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/hq9goz/best_college_speaker_ever/ The case of Betty Frieberg]], who was a longsuffering wife to an abusive husband. She endured all the abuse, sheriff could only jail her husband for a short time before he got out and went back to abusing her physically. Until he abused her daughter. She shot her husband, carved up his body and discarded it, until a piece was found. She refused and plea, and explained that she felt she had no choice and how the justice system did not work for her. The jury found her not guilty and she was acquitted.
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* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/hq9goz/best_college_speaker_ever/ The case of Betty Frieberg]], who was a longsuffering wife to an abusive husband. She endured all the physical abuse, sheriff could would only jail her husband for a short time before he got out and went back to abusing her physically. her. Until he sexually abused her daughter. She shot her husband, husband and carved up his body and discarded it, body, until a piece of it was found. She refused and any plea, and explained that she felt she had no choice choice, and how the justice system did not work for failed her. The jury found her not guilty due to extenuating circumstances, and she was acquitted.
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* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/hq9goz/best_college_speaker_ever/ The case of Betty Frieberg]], who was a longsuffering wife to an abusive husband. She endured all the abuse, sheriff could only jail her husband for a short time before he got out and went back to abusing her physically. Until he abused her daughter. She shot her husband, carved up his body and discarded it, until a piece was found. She refused and plea, and explained that she felt she had no choice and how the justice system did not work for her. The jury found her not guilty and she was acquitted.
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* [[Literature/TheLincolnLawyer Mickey Haller]] doesn't do this himself, being as he's just a slightly conflicted AmoralAttorney rather than a VigilanteMan, but the central case of Literature/TheBrassVerdict is resolved when [[spoiler: the relatives of one of the victims shoot and kill the perpetrator, who was acquitted due to Mickey's defence.]] The title of the book is (allegedly) LAPD slang for this sort of thing.
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* Series/TheLincolnLawyer, being an adaptation of Literature/TheBrassVerdict (see Literature, above) carries over the resolution from that novel, although it changes the identity (and fate) of the executioner - [[spoiler: in the novel, the executioners have left the country before their crime is even discovered, and no-one seems particularly keen to extradite them back; in the series, the executioner carries out their attack in broad daylight, in the presence of many reporters and cameras, and doesn't even try to get away, meaning they're pretty much certainly going to be convicted of their crime.]]
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* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': In Season 3, the "hero" Blue Hawk manages to escape justice for going on a racist rampage at a Black community center (where he was supposed to give an OrderedApology, no less) by blaming everything on Antifa, with [[MegaCorp Vought]] working to cover things up. [[spoiler:A-Train, who wanted him to give the apology in the first place and whose brother Nathan was permanently crippled at said incident, kills him the next by dragging him along a highway using his SuperSpeed until Blue Hawk becomes red paste]].
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** Indian serial killer, rapist and gangster Akku Yadav was stoned, castrated and stabbed over 70 times by a lynch mob while seeking police protection.
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** Indian serial killer, rapist and gangster Akku Yadav was stoned, castrated and stabbed over 70 times by a lynch mob of mostly women while seeking police protection.protection in a courthouse.
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* Ossetian father Vitaly Kaloyev lost his wife (Svetlana) and children (Konstantin and Diana) in the in-air collision of Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and DHL Flight 611 over Überlingen, Germany on July 1, 2002. Vitaly held Peter Nielsen, the sole air traffic controller in Switzerland who was handling traffic the night of the collision, responsible (in reality, Peter was a victim of circumstances caused by maintenance shutting down phone lines and other resources, his coworkers leaving him to handle it alone despite the fact that this was illegal, important backup systems that would alert him of the problem being down for maintenance, and an Airbus taking up his time). In 2004, Kaloyev hired a Moscow private investigator to find Nielsen's address, traveled to the Swiss town of Kloten where Nielsen had peacefully retired, and stabbed him to death.
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* Ossetian father Vitaly Kaloyev lost his wife (Svetlana) and children (Konstantin and Diana) in the in-air collision of Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and DHL Flight 611 over Überlingen, Germany on July 1, 2002. Vitaly held Peter Nielsen, the sole air traffic controller in Switzerland who was handling traffic the night of the collision, responsible (in reality, Peter was a victim of circumstances caused by maintenance shutting down phone lines and other resources, his coworkers leaving him to handle it alone despite the fact that this was illegal, important backup systems that would alert him of the problem being down for maintenance, and an Airbus taking up his time). In 2004, Kaloyev hired a Moscow private investigator to find Nielsen's address, traveled to the Swiss town of Kloten where Nielsen had peacefully retired, and stabbed him to death. He was imprisoned for two years, but was later called a hero in his hometown for the act while the Swiss government declared him PersonaNonGrata.
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* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': The Jury is an entire group of armed murderers enforcing vigilante justice by doing such public services as blowing up a purse snatcher on a busy street, and going out on a shooting spree when a bunch of people escaped extrajudicial imprisonment in Bludhaven.
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* In ''Film/{{Outrage}}'', Robert Preston is a father whose daughter was raped and murdered by a man who is released on a technicality because the police made a mistake. After his wife dies because of the trauma of learning their daughter's murderer has gotten off scot-free, he buys a gun, drives to the area of town where the man generally hangs out, calls out his name, and when he responds, shoots and kills him.\
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* In ''Film/{{Outrage}}'', Robert Preston is a father whose daughter was raped and murdered by a man who is released on a technicality because the police made a mistake. After his wife dies because of the trauma of learning their daughter's murderer has gotten off scot-free, he buys a gun, drives to the area of town where the man generally hangs out, calls out his name, and when he responds, shoots and kills him.\
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* ''Film/{{Eraser}}'': Arnie kills off the BigBad in this manner, when it becomes clear that he will never be convicted.
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* ''Film/{{Eraser}}'': Arnie kills off the BigBad in this manner, manner when it becomes clear that he will never be convicted.convicted. At the very least, the BigBad definitely ''intended'' to use every means at his disposal to avoid a conviction (including murdering any witnesses), and with his position and goons on the payroll he likely could have pulled it off.
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* In ''Creator/IDWPublishing'''s ''Optimus Prime'' series, Optimus Prime, Soundwave and Arcee are in pursuit of ArcVillain Galvatron, eventually catching up to him near the Cybertronian space station Sanctuary Station. After a short but sharp fight, Galvatron laughs and surrenders, claiming that Optimus will need his help for a coming threat. However, Optimus Prime, heartily sick of Galvatron being a KarmaHoudini since their first encounter years earlier, simply points his gun at him. [[OhCrap As horrified realisation dawns]], Galvatron frantically insists that [[VillainsWantMercy he surrenders]]. In response, Optimus acknowledges his surrender... and then [[NoKillLikeOverkill shoots him in the chest and pulls off his head]] before [[LastDisrespects kicking his headless corpse into Jupiter's gravity to be crushed into nothingness]].
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** In November of 2021, 60-year old John Eisenman was charged with murdering his daughter's 19-year old boyfriend Aaron Sorensen after discovering he had sold her into sex trafficking ring in Seattle, Washington. After rescuing and recovering his daughter, Eisenman reportedly tracked down Sorensen, abducted him, tied him up, beat him with a cinder block, stabbed him to death, and then left him in the trunk of a car, where his remains would not be discovered for nearly a year.
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* ''Film/TheOxBowIncident'' is about a group of men in the Old West who, after hearing of the death of a rancher, form a posse and hunt down three men for the crime. [[spoiler:Except the rancher ''isn't dead'', so they just murdered three innocent men.]] The film is a vicious indictment of the idea, pointing out that the posse is less about justice and more about bloodlust and injured masculinity.
* ''Film/TheOxBowIncident'' is about a group of men in the Old West who, after hearing of the death of a rancher, form a posse and hunt down three men for the crime. [[spoiler:Except the rancher ''isn't dead'', so they just murdered three innocent men.]] The film is a vicious indictment of the idea, pointing out that the posse is less about justice and more about bloodlust and injured masculinity.
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* One of the main overarching mysteries in ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney Duology'' is about the identity of a vigilante known as the Reaper of the Bailey preforming such acts to guilty parties, usually corrupt members of high society, who walk free. At first pretty much everyone is convinced the culprit is Barok Van Zieks, the main prosecutor of this game, as the defendants who are killed are almost always from trials he prosecuted, but since no evidence has ever been found to support this he's never been formally charged. However, as the games go on [[spoiler: it becomes increasingly clear this might not be the case and comes to a head in the second game's final trial when it's revealed that the Reaper is not a single person but an organization led by London's Chief Justice that's been using Van Zieks as a scapegoat for 10 or so years.]]
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* Theatre/{{Parade}}: The musical adapts historical events: Leo Frank, a Jewish New Yorker living in TheDeepSouth, was convicted of the rape and murder of one of his white employees, Mary Phagan. He was initially sentenced to death, but when it was changed to life imprisonment two years later, a group of armed men kidnapped him from prison and lynched him in Phagan's hometown of Marietta, Georgia. Although it's left unconfirmed in the show, general historian consensus is that Frank was innocent and Jim Conley (whose account of events had glaring discrepancies) was guilty. The real Frank was eventually posthumously pardoned in 1986, but not absolved of the crime.
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* Theatre/{{Parade}}: The musical adapts historical events: Leo Frank, a Jewish New Yorker living in TheDeepSouth, was convicted of the rape and murder of one of his white employees, Mary Phagan. He was initially sentenced to death, but when it was changed to life imprisonment two years later, a group of armed men kidnapped him from prison and lynched him in Phagan's hometown of Marietta, Georgia. Although it's left unconfirmed in the show, general historian consensus is that Frank was innocent and Jim Conley (whose account of events had glaring discrepancies) was guilty. The real Frank was eventually posthumously pardoned in 1986, but not absolved of the crime.
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* In ''Film/TheUntouchables'', [[ByTheBookCop Elliot Ness]] ultimately decides to bend the rules and [[DisneyVillainDeath shove Frank Nitti off the top of a courthouse]] instead of letting him stand trial and possibly [[KarmaHoudini escape punishment]] after Nitti [[spoiler:[[TooDumbToLive taunts him about the fact that he killed Ness' friend Jim Malone]].]] Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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* In ''Film/TheUntouchables'', ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'', [[ByTheBookCop Elliot Eliot Ness]] ultimately decides to bend the rules and [[DisneyVillainDeath shove Frank Nitti off the top of a courthouse]] instead of letting him stand trial and possibly [[KarmaHoudini escape punishment]] after Nitti [[spoiler:[[TooDumbToLive taunts him about the fact that he killed Ness' friend Jim Jimmy Malone]].]] [[AssholeVictim Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.guy]].
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* The premise behind ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''.
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''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''. [[spoiler:The killer has a craving for violence, but doesn't want to be evil, so he rounds up a group of people who are guilty of killing others in ways that could never go to court, and murders them one by one -- ending with himself.]]
* Also the premise behind ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress''. [[spoiler:The victim had previously kidnapped a child, demanded a ransom, and then murdered the child anyway. The other passengers on the train are friends and associates of the bereaved family, who banded together for justice/revenge.]]
* Also the premise behind ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress''. [[spoiler:The victim had previously kidnapped a child, demanded a ransom, and then murdered the child anyway. The other passengers on the train are friends and associates of the bereaved family, who banded together for justice/revenge.]]
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* In ''Film/John DoeVigilante'', many of the titular character's victims are not just [[AssholeVictim asshole victims]], they were either acquitted of or given lenient sentences for the despicable crimes they had committed.
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** One of the more infamous examples occurred in 1981, when the residents of Skidmore, Missouri, ganged up and murdered Ken [=McElroy=], a local resident who had committed various crimes ranging from arson to attempted murder to statutory rape, but had evaded any legal punishment through intimidation. To this day, exactly who killed [=McElroy=] is unknown.
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* In ''Film/TerrorAtBlackFalls'', Manuel Avila is hanged by a mob of farmers for stealing a calf. Sheriff Cal and Manuel's father and brothers all rush to stop the hanging, but they are too late. Enraged, Juan tries to shoot Cal, who shoots him in the hand. Juan's hand has to be amputated, which gives him another reason to want revenge.
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* On February 16, 1947, a black man named Willie Earle was arrested for the murder of white cab driver Thomas Brown in Greenville, South Carolina. That night, a mob of several dozen armed cab drivers stormed into the county jail, forced jail guards to hand over Earle, and then beat, shot, and stabbed him to death. The crime was so shocking that South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond, a notorious pro-segregationist, publicly condemned it and actively worked with the FBI to apprehend the killers. A total of 31 people were arrested and went to trial, but all of them were acquitted. The presiding judge in the trial, Robert Martin, was so outraged by the verdict that he angrily stormed out of the courthouse without thanking the jury for their service. The event inspired South Carolina to pass a new anti-lynching law in 1950 that made lynching a capitol crime. Earle's case is believed to be the last lynching in the state of South Carolina.
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